Picturing the Workers' Olympics and the Spartakiads

Picturing the Workers' Olympics and the Spartakiads
Author: Przemysław Strożek
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000647471

This volume focuses on the modernist and avant-garde engagement with workers’ sport events that were organised or were planned to be organised in the cities of Central Europe and the USSR in the period of 1920–1932: Frankfurt am Main – Vienna – Moscow – Prague – Budapest – Berlin. During the 1920s and 1930s, two organisations of workers’ sport operated: the Lucerne Sport International/Socialist Workers’ Sport International and the Red Sport International, which held the socialist Workers’ Olympics and the communist Spartakiads, respectively. These events were not aimed at cultivating national victories and individual athletic records, but at mobilising workers for the class struggle and at creating new culture for the working class. This book examines the visual propaganda of the Workers’ Olympics and the Spartakiads expressed through paintings, sculptures, prints, illustrations, posters, postcards, photomontages, photographs, films, theatre and architectural projects. It emphasises the significance of workers’ sport for the artistic and social changes within a utopian project of a new culture, as visualised by the modernist and avant-garde artists, including Varvara Stepanova, Gustav Klucis, and Otto Nagel. This volume is of great use to students and scholars of the history of sport, art history and cultural history in interwar Europe and the Soviet Union.

Documenting the Beijing Olympics

Documenting the Beijing Olympics
Author: D.P. Martinez
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317965752

This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics – ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word – and the meanings generated by such representations. What were the ‘key’ stories and how were they chosen? What was dramatised? Who were the heroes? Which ‘clashes’ were highlighted and how? What sorts of stories did the notion of ‘human interest’ generate? Did politics take a backseat or was the topic highlighted repeatedly? Thus, the focus was not on the success or failure of this event, but on the ways in which the Olympics Games, as international and historic events, are memorialised by observers. The key question that this book addresses is: How far would the Olympic coverage fall into the patterns of representation that have come to dominate Olympic reporting and what would China, as a discursive subject, bring to these patterns? This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games

Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games
Author: Eva Kassens Noor
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2020-01-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030385531

This open access book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los Angeles, USA. The author critically compares the similarities and differences of the LA Olympics by reviewing the 1932 and 1984 Olympics and by analyzing the concurrent planning process for the 2028 Olympics. The author unravels the conditions that make (or do not make) LA28’s argument “we have staged the Games before, we can do it again” compelling. Setting the bid’s promises into the contemporary local and global mega-event contexts, the author analyzes why LA won the bids, how those wins allowed LA to negotiate concessions with the IOC and NOC, and how legacies were planned, executed, and ultimately evolved. The author concludes with a prediction which 2028 legacy promises might and might not be fulfilled given the local and international Olympic contexts.

A Simple Souvenir

A Simple Souvenir
Author: Peter G. Van Alfen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780897222938

In this richly illustrated catalogue of the ANS exhibit, "Full Circle: The Olympic Heritage in Coins and Medals," the author examines the role that numismatic material relating to both the ancient and modern Games has played in social and political contexts. In addition to the introductory essay, the catalogue provides a brief overview of the history of the Games and discusses over 130 objects, including ancient Greek coins, vases and sporting equipment, as well as modern medals, coins, and Olympic ephemera.

Poland

Poland
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 660
Release: 1972
Genre: Poland
ISBN:

Olympic Cities

Olympic Cities
Author: John Robert Gold
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0415374065

This volume provides an overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic Games, starting from the year 1896. Blending critical conceptual insight with grounded case studies, this book, divided into three parts, explores the historical experience of staging the Olympics from the point of view of the host city.

The Medals of Karl Goetz

The Medals of Karl Goetz
Author: Gunter W. Kienast
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1967
Genre: Medals
ISBN:

A study of the study of the life, work, and inspiration of the medalist Karl Goetz, who lived from 1875 to 1950. The text describes many of the medals and coins he created.

Watteau, Music, and Theater

Watteau, Music, and Theater
Author: Antoine Watteau
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2009
Genre: Artists and theater
ISBN: 1588393356

"Accompanying an exhibition in honor of Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this engaging book examines the influence of music and theater on the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Fifteen major paintings and a number of drawings by Watteau that illustrate the connections between painting and the performing arts in Paris are explored. In addition, drawings and prints by other 18th-century artists featuring musical or theatrical subjects and objects and musical instruments are included."--Publisher description.

A Century of Olympic Posters

A Century of Olympic Posters
Author: Margaret Timmers
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2008-06
Genre: Art
ISBN:

As snapshots through time, Olympic posters provide a fascinating record of the world. This collection of images offers an intensely visual representation of the modern Games, and shows the evolution of the Olympic Games poster as well.