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Sports and American Art from Benjamin West to Andy Warhol - 9781558498747

Un libro in lingua di Allen Guttmann Clark Carol (FRW) edito da Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 2011

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Guttmann (English and American studies, Amherst U.)employs an unusual format to marry American history with the history of sports art in the country, exploring the parallel development of sport, art, and the American character through time. He outlines the colonial, antebellum, post Civil War, industrial, and late 20th century periods in turn, characterizing the socio-political state of the nation, the predominant forms of sport, and the state of the art world, respectively. Guttmann then traces the intersection of sport and art in these periods- the cricketers and ice skaters of colonial paintings; wrestlers, sailors, and baseball players of late 19th century art; Warhol portraits of athletes such as Dorothy Hamill and Muhammad Ali and considers how each of the two activities informs and reveals the other throughout their mutual history. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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