The Art And Aesthetics Of Boxing

Author : David H. T. Scott
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803213869

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What separates the chaos of fighting from the coherent ritual of boxing? According to author David Scott, it is a collection of aesthetic constructions, including the shape of the ring, the predictable rhythm of timed rounds, the uniformity of the boxers? glamorous attire, and the stylization of the combatants? posture and punches. In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, Scott explores the ways in which these and other aesthetic elements of the sport have evolved over time. Scott comprehensively addresses the rich dialogue between boxing and the arts, suggesting that boxing not only possesses intrinsic aesthetic qualities but also has inspired painters, graphic designers, surrealist poets, and modern writers to identify, expand, and respond to the aesthetic properties of the sport. Divided into three parts, the book moves from a consideration of the evolution and intrinsic aesthetics of boxing to the responses to the sport by cubist and futurist painters and sculptors, installation artists, poster designers, photographers, and, finally, surrealist poets and modernist writers. ø With distinctive illustrations and photographs in nine short chapters, Scott creates a visual as well as a textual narrative that supplements and concretely demonstrates the deep, dynamic relationship between the art of boxing and the world of art and literature.

Author : Georges Carpentier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Boxing
ISBN : MINN:31951001598213V

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Author : Gerald R. Gems
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781442229914

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Boxing by Gerald R. Gems Pdf

Sports fans have long been fascinated with boxing and the brutal demonstration of physical and psychological conflict. Accounts of the sport appear as far back as the third millennium BC, and Greek and Roman sculptors depicted the athletic ideals of the ancient era in the form of boxers. In the present day, boxers such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Robinson, Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. are recognized throughout the world. Boxing films continue to resonate with audiences, from the many Rocky movies to Raging Bull, The Fighter, Million Dollar Baby, and Ali. In Boxing: A Concise History of the Sweet Science, Gerald R. Gems provides a succinct yet wide ranging treatment of the sport, covering boxing’s ancient roots and its evolution, modernization, and global diffusion. The book not only includes a historical account of boxing, but also explores such issues as social class, race, ethnic rivalries, religious influences, gender issues, and the growth of female boxing. The current debates over the moral and ethical issues relative to the sport are also discussed. While the primary coverage of the political, social, and cultural impacts of boxing focuses on the United States, Gems’ examination encompasses the sport on a global level, as well. Covering important issues and events in the history of boxing and featuring numerous photographs, Boxing: A Concise History of the Sweet Science will be of interest to boxing fans, historians, scholars, and those wanting to learn more about the sport.

Author : Daniel Mendoza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1789
Category : Boxing
ISBN : BL:A0022692347

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The Modern Art of Boxing by Daniel Mendoza Pdf

Author : David Scott
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Boxers
ISBN : 303431860X

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Cultures of Boxing by David Scott Pdf

Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, the book offers a vital and original contribution to the understanding of this enduringly fascinating and controversial sport. It does this be exploring and interrogating different aspects of boxing culture and associated concepts like masculinity and violence.

Author : E. B. Michell
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781447489016

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Boxing And Sparring - The Art Of Boxing by E. B. Michell Pdf

The untutored combats of boys are absurd parodies; and in many a remote place the clubs, where so-called boxing takes place, produce local champions who are disfigured by almost every fault that can make them ridiculous. A bad style is in this matter, as in most others, very difficult to get rid of; and it is very rare to find a boxer of any pretensions who has not learnt early in a good school. A new chance has been afforded by the publication of this hand-book. To the attentive study of this treatise every beginner may be confidently recommended, especially if there is no chance of attending the 'lectures' of a really competent mentor.

Author : John Hurley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781411601895

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Self-Defense by John Hurley Pdf

This book is a reprint of Ned Donnelly's classic treatise on boxing.

Author : Jimmy Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Boxing
ISBN : OCLC:849716720

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Author : Sarah Crews,P. Solomon Lennox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000244762

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Boxing and Performance by Sarah Crews,P. Solomon Lennox Pdf

Boxing and Performance is the first substantial piece of work to place the lived experience of female and male boxers in dialogue with one another. Crews and Lennox critically reflect on their ethnographic experiences of boxing and their reading of the cultural representations of the sport. They conceive of the project as an extended sparring session. This book offers a unique perspective on boxing in/as performance and boxing in/as culture. It explores how the connections between boxing and performance address ideas about bodies, relationships, intimacy, and combat. It challenges and renegotiates oft-repeated narratives used to make meaning about boxing. This volume examines questions of visibility, voice, and agency and will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of performance and media, and sport and social studies.

Author : Tom Lotta
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1478360380

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The Art of Boxing by Tom Lotta Pdf

Tom Lotta was army lightweight champion 1944-1945. Tom fought 48 times, losing twice on decisions. One of those losses was to Joe Brown who later became the undisputed lightweight champion of the world. Tom wrote this book to introduce basic boxing skills that are concise enough and simple enough for youngsters. This book is also the official instruction manual for the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame.

Author : Joseph D Lewandowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000510430

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On Boxing by Joseph D Lewandowski Pdf

This book is a philosophical and cultural critique of contemporary boxing. It broadens and deepens our understanding of the empirically and normatively entwined complexities of a sport that is often misunderstood and all too easily reduced to stereotypes. Moving between and among work in ethnography, sociology, urban studies and, especially, the philosophy of sport, and drawing on research in boxing gyms in the US, the book presents a stereoscopic view of professional boxing as both situated cultural practice and formalized competitive sport. It takes us inside and outside the ring in discussions of the cultural embeddedness of boxing and boxing gyms, the formation of pugilistic selfhood and ‘boxer cool’, the nature and function of combat sport violence and sparring, and the aesthetics and ethics of cornering a boxing match. With its interdisciplinary focus on the empirical and normative dimensions of professional pugilism, On Boxing makes explicit the bittersweetness of the ‘sweet science’ and provides a new theoretical framework for analysing boxing and, indeed, sport in general. Written for a broad audience, this is important reading for scholars and students working in the areas of philosophy and sociology of sport and combat sport studies, as well as policy makers, coaches, and commentators engaged in the sport of boxing.

Author : Nicholas Chare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857728470

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Sportswomen in Cinema by Nicholas Chare Pdf

Sportswomen in Cinema considers both documentary and fiction films from a variety of periods and cultures, by directors including Kathryn Bigelow, Gurinder Chadha, Im Soon-rye, George Kukor, Ida Lupino, and Leni Riefenstahl. Drawing from psychoanalytic and phenomenological theories, the book presents a series of landmark close readings of films featuring a variety of different forms of athletic activity, including baseball, basketball, bodybuilding, boxing, climbing, football, rollerderby, surfing, tennis and track and field. In focusing on themes such as gesture, screen space and sound, it moves beyond a purely narrative analysis of sports films. What's more, as well as building on existing scholarship in sports studies to argue that sport should always be conceived of as more than simply competitive, the book also contributes to ongoing efforts in film theory to foster new feminist discourses on sexual difference. The ideas of thinkers such as Judith Butler, Bracha Ettinger, Griselda Pollock and Michel Serres are employed to explore how films featuring female athletes reflect changing perspectives on femininity and sexuality and also, potentially, contribute to transforming our perceptions about sportswomen and cinema. Sportswomen in Cinema is an important addition to the literature of film studies, gender studies and sports studies.

Author : Walsall Museum and Art Gallery
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015040746839

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Boxer by Walsall Museum and Art Gallery Pdf

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 boxing's 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

Author : Art
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1010492470

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Author : Georges Carpentier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Boxing
ISBN : LCCN:26010996

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