The Visual in Sport

Preface: New Agendas and New Questions for the History of Sport 1. Prologue: Extending Study of the Visual in the History of Sport 2. Imaging Sport at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art (1929-37) 3. Reading Photographic Portraits of Australian Women Cyclists in the 1890s: From Costume and Cycle Choices to Constructions of Feminine Identity 4. Enveloping the Past: Sport Stamps, Visuality and Museums 5. Pedal-Powered Avant-Gardes: Cycling Paintings in 1912-13 6. Stadiums: Architecture and the Iconography of the Beautiful Game 7. The Football Ground and Visual Culture: Recapturing Place, Memory and Meaning at Ayresome Park 8. 'We Make a Big Effort to Bring Out the Ladies': Visual Representations of Women in the Modern American Stadium 9. From Melbourne Cooper to Match of the Day and Mo-Cap: Motion as Metaphor and Metaphysics in Animated Sport 10. Contesting the Master Narrative: The Arthur Ashe Statue and Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia 11. Mapping America's Sporting Landscape: A Case Study of Three Statues 12. The Palio Banner and the Visual Culture of Horse Racing in Renaissance Italy 13. Hasta la Victoria (Deportista) Siempre: Revolution, Art, and the Representation of Sport in Cuban Visual Culture 14. 'Sport for Grown Children': American Political Cartoons, 1790-1850 15. Liberation and Containment: Re-visualising the Eugenic and Evolutionary Ideal of the Fizkul'turnitsa in 1944 16. Seeing Your Way to Health: The Visual Pedagogy of Bess Mensendieck's Physical Culture System 17. Sport and Spectatorship as Everyday Ritual in Ben Shahn's Painting and Photography 18. Epilogue