Skrypzak Joann: Sporting Modernity Sports, Art, and the Athletic Body in Germany, 1918-1938
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.02.2009
Verlag
VDMSeitenzahl
336
Maße (L/B/H)
22.2/15.4/2.3 cm
Gewicht
517 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-8364-6533-5
During the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic
(1918-1933) sports emerged as a popular phenomenon
that critics often derided as a degenerate fad. But
sports and art institutions as well as avant-garde
artists looked more closely at sports' potential to
rejuvenate a populace demoralized by World War I and
cultivate a more dynamic, harmonious society. This
book examines images of sports in the visual arts of
Weimar Germany to explore how institutions and
artists forged a link between sports and art and gave
new visual form to notions about the ideal body. It
looks at the 1930 Berlin art exhibition Sports as
Cultural Factor and sports at the Bauhaus and
investigates the sports pictures of László
Moholy-Nagy, Anton Räderscheidt, and Willi Baumeister
as exemplary case studies. Besides examining Weimar
sports culture and its link to art, this study
illuminates the complex ways in which artists used
the motif of the athletic body to define humans'
relation to modernity while addressing issues of
industrialization, gender, mind-body dualism, and the
promotion of sports. This engaging work will be of
particular value to readers interested in modern art,
sports, and culture in Germany.
(1918-1933) sports emerged as a popular phenomenon
that critics often derided as a degenerate fad. But
sports and art institutions as well as avant-garde
artists looked more closely at sports' potential to
rejuvenate a populace demoralized by World War I and
cultivate a more dynamic, harmonious society. This
book examines images of sports in the visual arts of
Weimar Germany to explore how institutions and
artists forged a link between sports and art and gave
new visual form to notions about the ideal body. It
looks at the 1930 Berlin art exhibition Sports as
Cultural Factor and sports at the Bauhaus and
investigates the sports pictures of László
Moholy-Nagy, Anton Räderscheidt, and Willi Baumeister
as exemplary case studies. Besides examining Weimar
sports culture and its link to art, this study
illuminates the complex ways in which artists used
the motif of the athletic body to define humans'
relation to modernity while addressing issues of
industrialization, gender, mind-body dualism, and the
promotion of sports. This engaging work will be of
particular value to readers interested in modern art,
sports, and culture in Germany.
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