Picturing the beautiful game a history of soccer in visual culture and art edited by Daniel Haxall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haxall, Daniel, editor.

Series:

Criminal Practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer in art.

Soccer in popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2018.

Summary:

"The world's most popular sport, soccer, has long been celebrated as "the beautiful game" for its artistry and aesthetic appeal. Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art is the first collection to examine the rich visual culture of soccer, including the fine arts, design, and mass media. Covering a range of topics related to the game's imagery, this volume investigates the ways soccer has been promoted, commemorated, and contested in visual terms. Throughout various mediums and formats - including illustrated newspapers, modern posters, and contemporary artworks - soccer has come to represent issues relating to identity, politics, and globalization. As the contributors to this collection suggest, these representations of the game reflect society and soccer's place in our collective imagination. Perspectives from a range of fields including art history, sociology, sport history, and media studies enrich the volume, affording a multifaceted visual history of the beautiful game."--Bloomsbury Publishing

The world's most popular sport, soccer, has long been celebrated as "the beautiful game" for its artistry and aesthetic appeal. Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art is the first collection to examine the rich visual culture of soccer, including the fine arts, design, and mass media. Covering a range of topics related to the game's imagery, this volume investigates the ways soccer has been promoted, commemorated, and contested in visual terms. Throughout various mediums and formats-including illustrated newspapers, modern posters, and contemporary artworks-soccer has come to represent issues relating to identity, politics, and globalization. As the contributors to this collection suggest, these representations of the game reflect society and soccer's place in our collective imagination. Perspectives from a range of fields including art history, sociology, sport history, and media studies enrich the volume, affording a multifaceted visual history of the beautiful game

Contents:

From the Oval to the Crystal Palace : the FA Cup Final and its depiction in the Victorian illustrated press / Alexander Leese

The footballer as the figure of the new man in Italian and Russian avant-garde, 1910s-1930s / Przemysław Strożek

Imagining reality : critical responses to the commercialization of the beautiful game / Ray Physick

Introduction

Picturing the Beautiful Game

Daniel Haxall

Part One: Soccer and Mass Media

1. From the Oval to the Crystal Palace: the FA Cup final and its depiction in the Victorian illustrated press

Alexander Leese

2. "Hours and hours of mundane moments and then you get this": Motion and Punctuality in the Soccer GIF

Luke Healey

Part Two: Soccer and Memory

3. Making a Spectacle of Ourselves: Imaging the Supporter at Football and the Fine Arts

Mike O'Mahony

4. The Boss in Bronze: Three Statues of Brian Clough

Christopher Stride, Ffion Thomas, and Nick Catley

Part Three: Soccer and Modernism

5. The Footballer as the Figure of the New Man in Italian and Russian Avant-Garde, 1910s-1930s

Przemyslaw Strozek

6. From Free Agency to Captivity: Football and Spectacle inContemporary Art

Chris McAuliffe

Part Four: Soccer and Gender

7. Feminist Art and Women's Soccer

Jennifer Doyle

8. Gender, Pleasure, and the Look: Female Fans and Men's Soccer

Carrie Dunn

Part Five: Soccer and Global Politics

9. The Politics of Soccer in Contemporary Ghanaian Art

10. Adventures of the Triolectic: Art, Politics and Three-Sided Football

Christopher Collier

Part Six: Soccer and Commercialism

11. Over 100,000 Posters: the Unprecedented Commercialism of the 1966 World Cup in England

Jean Williams

12. Imagining Realty: Critical Responses to the Commercialization of the Beautiful Game

Ray Physick

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781501334597

150133459X

9781501334573

1501334573

OCLC:

1050437435