Przemyslaw Strozek

Picturing the Workers' Olympics and the Spartakiads (eBook, PDF)

Modernist and Avant-Garde Engagement with Sport in Central Europe and the USSR, 1920-1932

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume focuses on the modernist and avant-garde engagement with workers' sport events that were organised or were planned to be organised in the cities of Central Europe and the USSR in the period of 1920-1932: Frankfurt am Main - Vienna - Moscow - Prague - Budapest - Berlin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000647358
• Artikelnr.: 64759759

Autorenporträt

Przemyslaw Strozek 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 Zacheta - National Gallery of Art in Warsaw.

Inhaltsangabe

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.
Dev¿tsil, 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