Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 276 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 694 g
Reihe: Mit Press
Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 276 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 694 g
Reihe: Mit Press
ISBN: 978-0-262-53143-6
Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC
Boxing has always provoked passionate responses, attracting committed
followers and outspoken critics in all sections of society. Objections to the
spectacle of legal violence has been tempered by those who admire and are drawn to
boxing as a supremely disciplined activity, who see it as a science or an art. But
many still revile it as a decadent sport. It is these tensions, between sport and
art, aesthetics and perversion, that have shaped boxing¹s rich history and forged
its special links with the art world over three decades.The ten essays and duotone
illustrations in Boxer provide a multifaceted look at perceptions of the sport,
embracing issues of masculinity, class, eroticism, and race. Contributors (most of
whose work was commissioned especially for this volume) include Joyce Carol Oates,
Marcia Pointon, Sarah Hyde, Ian Jeffrey, David Alan Mellor, Jean Fisher, Keith
Piper, Nick James, Jennifer Hargreaves, and Roger Conover. Their essays examine
boxing in a wide variety of contexts -- high art and popular culture, painting and
sculpture, photography, film, and television -- yet they all see boxing and the
visual arts as having a unique relationship that crosses and confuses social and
artistic hierarchies.Distributed for the Institute of International Visual Arts,
London
