Author: Little, David Eugene
Title: The Sports Show: Athletics As Image and Spectacle
Description: Minneapolis, Minn, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, navy blue dust jacket with color illustration. 302 pp. Over 150 illustrations. An catalogue of an exhibition held February 19 through May 13, 2012, The Sports Show is a moving picture show in its own right, flashing before us a history of twentieth-century sport caught on film. Here are Jacques-Henri Lartigue's early twentieth-century photographs of his family's adventures driving race cars; Eadweard Muybridge's famous images of "animal locomotion"; photographs by artists as well known as Alfred Stieglitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Stanley Kubrick, Edward Steichen, Garry Winogrand, Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol, and Andreas Gursky; and an abundance of extraordinary images from anonymous others who made our pastimes stop time. --book jacket. As New .

Keywords: American Art ; American Sports ; ; Museum Exhibitions - American Art


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