Court on Canvas
Tennis in Art
Published on 17. June 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-0-85667-706-9 (ISBN)
Description
A celebration and exploration of the origins of the game in Birmingham and the ways in which tennis has inspired artists from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.
Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art guides us from the origins of the game as a genteel pastime for the upper classes, through its codification as a sport, to the international high earning power game of today. It illustrates the changes in fashion associated with the sport and the important role tennis played in the emancipation of women in the early part of the twentieth century.
The book contains a survey of images of tennis in art from the 1870s onwards, and detailed examinations of the works are placed in a wider social, historical and art historical context.
Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art guides us from the origins of the game as a genteel pastime for the upper classes, through its codification as a sport, to the international high earning power game of today. It illustrates the changes in fashion associated with the sport and the important role tennis played in the emancipation of women in the early part of the twentieth century.
The book contains a survey of images of tennis in art from the 1870s onwards, and detailed examinations of the works are placed in a wider social, historical and art historical context.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
180 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 254 mm
Weight
868 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85667-706-9 (9780856677069)
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Person
Ann Sumner is Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and Professor of Fine Art and Curatorial Practice at the University of Birmingham, a post she took up in 2007 after seven years as Head of Fine Art at the National Museum of Wales.
Until his retirement in 2005, Kenneth McConkey was Dean of Arts at the University of Northumbria. He is a specialist in British, Irish and French painting at the turn of the twentieth century and an expert on the life and works of Sir John Lavery.
Robert Holland is a lawn tennis historian and Trustee of the Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society in Birmingham. He has been an enthusiastic tennis player since his youth and in the 1960s was a junior member of the Edgbaston Lawn Tennis Club and the Edgbaston Priory Club.
Susan Elks is a collector of tennis memorabilia and author of From Whalebone to Lycra: A Fashion Journey through Midlands Lawn Tennis History (2004), which traces the development of lawn tennis from its Victorian roots in Birmingham to the present day.
Until his retirement in 2005, Kenneth McConkey was Dean of Arts at the University of Northumbria. He is a specialist in British, Irish and French painting at the turn of the twentieth century and an expert on the life and works of Sir John Lavery.
Robert Holland is a lawn tennis historian and Trustee of the Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society in Birmingham. He has been an enthusiastic tennis player since his youth and in the 1960s was a junior member of the Edgbaston Lawn Tennis Club and the Edgbaston Priory Club.
Susan Elks is a collector of tennis memorabilia and author of From Whalebone to Lycra: A Fashion Journey through Midlands Lawn Tennis History (2004), which traces the development of lawn tennis from its Victorian roots in Birmingham to the present day.
Content
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Pat-ball tennis to the Fury of the Modern Game: The Changing Image of Lawn Tennis in Britain (Ann Sumner)
Chapter 2 - Edgbaston's Gem of a Game: the Origins of Lawn Tennis (Robert Holland)
Chapter 3 - Tennis parties (Kenneth McConkey)
Chapter 4 - Tennis and the Artist, 1870-2010 (Ann Sumner)
Chapter 5 - Tennis Fashions in the Frame (Susan J Elks)
Artists' Biographies
Bibliography
Index
Photo credits
Authors' Biographies
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Pat-ball tennis to the Fury of the Modern Game: The Changing Image of Lawn Tennis in Britain (Ann Sumner)
Chapter 2 - Edgbaston's Gem of a Game: the Origins of Lawn Tennis (Robert Holland)
Chapter 3 - Tennis parties (Kenneth McConkey)
Chapter 4 - Tennis and the Artist, 1870-2010 (Ann Sumner)
Chapter 5 - Tennis Fashions in the Frame (Susan J Elks)
Artists' Biographies
Bibliography
Index
Photo credits
Authors' Biographies