The Visual in Sport

Description

This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history, film history, design history, visual culture studies and related fields to explore the ways in which sport and the visual have inter-related in the past.

These authorities seek to radically extend the existing knowledge of the history of sport, setting new agendas and asking new questions. Their focus is on the many value-laden visual sources that have previously been under-examined and under-exploited by historians, and they subject these to clearly focused and rigorous scrutiny. The studies range across an impressively wide variety of sources, including sports trophies, posters, photographs, stamps, paintings, club crests, monuments, films, olympic art and political cartoons and their potent cultural backgrounds, multiple meanings and social influences. Iconic statues of sporting heroes and heroines, landscape-dominating stadium architecture, memorable sports films and fascinating photographs of movingly emotional moments are also all carefully scrutinized. The collection provides original, powerful and stimulating insight into:

• the sheer variety and importance of visual material available for analysis, and its purposes
• the reasons why the critical study of this imagery assists the knowledge and understanding of culture and sport
• the strengths and limitations of the visual archive of sport
• a variety of new approaches and interpretations

Sport has become central to modern popular culture. This collection allows researchers, publishers and others with an interest in sport to move beyond traditional text-based scholarship and appreciate the powerful imagery of sport in new ways.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Contents

Preface: New Agendas and New Questions for the History of Sport J. A. Mangan Prologue: Extending Study of the Visual in the History of Sport Mike Huggins and Mike O'Mahony Still but not Silent 1. Brand Value: Manchester United, from Club Crest to Trademark Jean-Marc Benammar 2. Cuban Sports Posters Dylan Miner 3. Constructs of Feminine Identity: Photographic Portraits of Women Cyclists in Australia in 1890s Fiona Kinsey 4. Pedal-powered Avant-Gardes: Cycling Paintings in the Early Twentieth Century Bernard Vere The Urban Landscape 5. Stadium Architecture, Visual Iconography and the Shaping of Urban and Sporting Identities Benjamin Flowers 6. The Football Ground as Visual Culture: Recapturing Place, Memory and Meaning at Ayresome Park Neville Gabie and Jason Wood 7. A Modern Pitch: Visual Representations of the Postwar American Baseball Stadium Benjamin Lisle Celluloid and Society 8. The Little Guy and Bigger Social Issues: The Rocky Franchise as Source and Influence in Contemporary History Fred Mason 9. Durham Bulls and Tin Cups - How Ron Shelton Reinvented The Sports Movie Rob Steen 10. From Goofy to Match of the Day: Motion as Metaphor and Metaphysics in Animated Sport Paul Wells 11. The Visual Representation of Rowing Champions in England and France before 1914 Frederic Delaive Nostalgia and Continuity 12. The Arthur Ashe Statue and Monument Avenue in Richmond. Challenging the Master Narrative Jaime Schultz 13. The Visual and Spatial Culture of Sporting Trophies: Golf, Sculpture and Brancusi's Clubs Jonathan Wood 14. Monuments and Memory: Mapping America's Cultural Landscape Maureen Smith Potent Political Propaganda 15. Carrying the Baton into Battle: Recruitment Posters and Sports Iconography in Australia during the Great War Daryl Adair 16. Sport for Grown Children: American Political Cartoons, 1760-1860 Kenneth Cohen 17. German National Socialism and Depictions of Heavy-weight Boxing Champion, Max Schmeling Lorettann D. Gascard 18. Art and Sport in the New State. Polish Artists in Olympic Art Competitions 1918-1939 Katarzyna Nowakowska-Sito Lessons for Life 19. Liberation and Containment: Revisualising the Eugenic and Evolutionary Ideals of Deineka Soviet) Painting in the 1940s Pat Simpson 20. Seeing Your Way to Health: The Visual Pedagogy of Bess Mensendieck's Physical Culture System Robin Veder 21. Sport as Everyday Ritual in 1930s American Painting and Photography John Fagg 22. Learning from the Olympics: Articulating National Identity through Graphic Design Jilly Traganou

Author Bio

Mike Huggins is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History at the Ambleside Campus of the University of Cumbria. He has published many books, chapters and articles on the history of sport and leisure in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Mike O'Mahony is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Bristol. His recent research has focused on representations of sport and physical culture in official and unofficial Soviet art, and he is now exploring the representation of sport and the Olympic Games in visual culture.

Related Subjects

1. Film Studies
2. Film & TV Communication
3. Olympics
4. Football
5. Global Sport
6. Golf
7. Social History of Sport
8. Sport, Culture & Media
9. Art & Visual Culture