Picturing the beautiful game : a history of soccer in visual culture and art /: a history of soccer in visual culture and art. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Daniel Haxall.
• Other Names: Haxall, Daniel
• Contents: 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 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 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 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 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
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 796.334; History of sport; Soccer in art; ART / Performance; ART / Reference; Soccer in art; Art -- Popular Culture; Sports & Recreation -- Soccer; Art -- History -- General; History of art & design styles: from c 1900; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501334580; 1501334581
• Related ISBNs: 9781501334566; 1501334565
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.