Picturing the Workers' Olympics and the Spartakiads: Modernist and Avant-Garde Engagement with Sport in Central Europe and the USSR, 1920-1932

Author:   Przemysław Strożek (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032010595


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   30 September 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Przemysław Strożek (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032010595


ISBN 10:   1032010592
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   30 September 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. The New Great Power. The First Workers’ Olympics in Frankfurt am Main as a Socialist Olympia, 1925 2. The Giants at the Prater Stadium. Visualising the Second Workers’ Olympics in the Socialist Paradise: the Red Vienna, 1931 3. ‘Every Worker-Athlete Must be a Soldier of the Revolution’. From Vsevobuch to Gustav Klucis’s Spartakiada series, 1928 4. The Communist Workers’ Sport for the Revolution, for the Proletariat, for the People. Devětsil, FPT and the Visual Propaganda of the Second Spartakiad in Prague, 1928 5. The Collective Embodiment of the Red Man. Workers’ Physical Training Association, Munka Circle and Worker Photography in Budapest 6. ‘Overcoming all Obstacles – Red Sport!’ Visualising solidarity and hope for Communist Sport in Berlin, 1931-1932 7. Conclusion

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Przemysław Strożek is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences and an Associate Researcher and curator at the Archiv der Avantgarden, Dresden. He was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Georgia, a fellow at the Accademia dei Lincei and recipient of a Korea Foundation fellowship. He is the author of several dozen academic articles, and published extensively his research on sport and the avant-garde, as well as on sport and contemporary art. Together with Andreas Kramer he has co-edited Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900–1945). He has curated numerous exhibitions, including an exhibition on Polish-Moroccan artistic relations at the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw.

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