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1 online resource (272 pages) |
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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 |
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Print version record. |
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Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Terminology and Word Usage; Introduction: Picturing the Beautiful Game; Studying the Beautiful Game; Exhibiting the Beautiful Game; Picturing the Beautiful Game; Notes; 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; 1882: Old Etonians 1 Blackburn Rovers 0; 1891: Blackburn Rovers 3 Notts County 1; 1895: Aston Villa 1 West Bromwich Albion 0; Conclusion; Notes |
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2 "Hours and Hours of Mundane Moments and Then You Get This": Motion and Punctuality in the Soccer GIFThe GIF and Barthes' Punctum; The GIF as Image; The Affective Power of the GIF; The GIF as Icon; The GIF as Fetish; Authorship and the GIF; Conclusion; Notes; Part Two Soccer and Memory; 3 Making a Spectacle of Ourselves: Imaging the Supporter at Football and the Fine Arts; Football and Postwar British Culture; Aligning Football and the Fine Arts; Football at the Festival: Expanding Cultural Boundaries; A Brief Case Study in the Art of Spectatorship: Gerald Cains' Saturday Taxpayers |
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Revisiting Football and the Fine ArtsNotes; 4 The Boss in Bronze: Three Statues of Brian Clough; Brian Clough; The Bronze Brian Clough: Man of the People or the King of Clubs?; Football Manager Statues: A Passing Phenomenon or a Growing Trend?; Notes; Part Three Soccer and Modernism; 5 The Footballer as the Figure of the New Man in Italian and Russian Avant-garde, 1910s-1930s; Introduction; Footballers-the Futurist Angels of Earth; Footballer-the Soviet Icarus; Conclusion; Notes; 6 From Free Agency to Captivity: Football and Spectacle in Contemporary Art |
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Modernism's Football: The Body in FreedomPostmodernism's Football: Spectacles of Confl ict and Constraint; Serious Business, Mimicry, and Subaltern Voices; Political Football: Infiltration and Social Inquiry; Football's New Pitch: The Stadium as Media Architecture; Global Brands and the Marketing of Sporting Rivalry; Notes; Part Four Soccer and Gender; 7 Feminist Art and Women's Soccer; Notes; 8 Gender, Pleasure, and the Look: Female Fans and Men's Soccer; Introduction: Women and the Media Coverage of Men's Soccer in the UK; Football Fandom and Everyday Life |
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The Media Representation of Football and Female FansFemale Fans' Media Consumption; The Role of Female Sexual Attraction in Soccer Fandom; Conclusion: Institutionalized Sexism and the Dilemma of Negotiating Fan Identity; Notes; Part Five Soccer and Global Politics; 9 The Politics of Soccer in Contemporary Ghanaian Art; Rise of the Black Stars; Godfried Donkor, Football and the Politics of Icons; George Afedzi Hughes, Soccer, and Postcolonial Fetishism; Owusu-Ankomah, Adinkra, and the Global Game; Marketing Black Stars: Football as Patron; Notes |
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Soccer in art.
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History of sport.
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History of art & design styles: from c 1900.
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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Soccer in art. (OCoLC)fst01122200
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Haxall, Daniel.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Picturing the beautiful game. A history of soccer in visual culture and art. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing 2018 9781501334566 (OCoLC)1043474820 |
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9781501334580 (electronic book) |
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1501334581 (electronic book) |
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