Victorian Olympians
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Victorian Olympians
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Author : Art Gallery of New South Wales
language : en
Publisher: Trustees Art Gallery of New South Wales
Release Date : 1975
Victorian Olympians written by Art Gallery of New South Wales and has been published by Trustees Art Gallery of New South Wales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Art categories.
Olympian Dreamers
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Author : Christopher Wood
language : en
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Release Date : 1983
Olympian Dreamers written by Christopher Wood and has been published by Constable & Robinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Art categories.
The British Olympics
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Author : Martin Polley
language : en
Publisher: English Heritage
Release Date : 2012-07-31
The British Olympics written by Martin Polley and has been published by English Heritage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-31 with History categories.
History records that the Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece nearly three thousand years ago, died out around 393 AD, and were triumphantly reborn in 1896, in the Greek capital of Athens. Rather less well known is how, during the intervening centuries, an assortment of British writers, romantics, sportsmen and visionaries helped nurture that revival. Indeed, as sports historian Dr Martin Polley argues in this, the 12th book in the acclaimed Played in Britain series, our nation's fascination with all things Olympian has played a pivotal role in shaping the Games as we know them today, culminating in London becoming in 2012 the first city ever to stage a third modern Olympiad. Consider, for example, that the first published use of the word 'Olympian' in the English language dates from around 1590. Its author? William Shakespeare. And that the first games of the post-classical era to adopt the formal title 'Olympick' took place in the Cotswolds village of Chipping Campden in 1612. It was an English traveller, Richard Chandler, who rediscovered the lost site of Olympia in 1766, and a Shropshire doctor, William Penny Brookes, who, in 1850, founded the Much Wenlock Olympian Games, an annual community festival that inspired Pierre de Coubertin to revive the Games at an international level. Other Olympic festivals surfaced in London (to celebrate Queen Victoria's accession), in Liverpool, and in the north-east town of Morpeth, while the words 'Olympic' and 'Olympian' became steadily more ingrained in the popular imagination throughout the Victorian era. Britain's Olympic heritage gained added momentum in the 20th century. At White City in 1908, London built the world's first modern, purpose-built Olympic stadium, while in 1948 London stepped in to save the Games by offering Wembley Stadium. Also in the late 1940s, at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire, the modern Paralympics were born when sporting contests were organised for injured servicemen. Thus the 2012 Games represent the culmination of over four hundred years of British enthusiasm and ingenuity; an attachment that has left in its wake a trail of fascinating stories, characters, sites, buildings and artefacts. Leading the reader on a marathon journey, The British Olympics charts them all, making this a vital and entertaining source for anyone with an interest in the Games, in sport, and in the wider narrative of Britain's social and cultural heritage.
Sport In Victoria
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Author : Dave Nadel
language : en
Publisher: Ryan Publishing
Release Date : 2015-08-01
Sport In Victoria written by Dave Nadel and has been published by Ryan Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This book, the result of contributions from a wide range of sports writers, officials and historians, relates the fascinating history of over 100 sports played in Victoria since the 1830s. It also covers the important events, venues, clubs and leagues which characterise Victoria's sporting culture. Published under the auspices of the Australian Society for Sports History.
Victorian Olympus
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Author : William Gaunt
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Release Date : 1975
Victorian Olympus written by William Gaunt and has been published by Jonathan Cape this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Art categories.
Victorian Engagements With The Bible And Antiquity
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Author : Simon Goldhill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-07-31
Victorian Engagements With The Bible And Antiquity written by Simon Goldhill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
A brilliant exposition of how the Bible and classical antiquity are central to the formation of Victorian self-understanding.
Pre Raphaelites And Olympians
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Author : Richard Beresford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Pre Raphaelites And Olympians written by Richard Beresford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
Victorian Skin
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Author : Pamela K. Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-15
Victorian Skin written by Pamela K. Gilbert and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Victorian Skin, Pamela K. Gilbert uses literary, philosophical, medical, and scientific discourses about skin to trace the development of a broader discussion of what it meant to be human in the nineteenth century. Where is subjectivity located? How do we communicate with and understand each other's feelings? How does our surface, which contains us and presents us to others, function and what does it signify? As Gilbert shows, for Victorians, the skin was a text to be read. Nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical perspectives had reconfigured the purpose and meaning of this organ as more than a wrapping and instead a membrane integral to the generation of the self. Victorian writers embraced this complex perspective on skin even as sanitary writings focused on the surface of the body as a dangerous point of contact between self and others. Drawing on novels and stories by Dickens, Collins, Hardy, and Wilde, among others, along with their French contemporaries and precursors among the eighteenth-century Scottish thinkers and German idealists, Gilbert examines the understandings and representations of skin in four categories: as a surface for the sensing and expressive self; as a permeable boundary; as an alienable substance; and as the site of inherent and inscribed properties. At the same time, Gilbert connects the ways in which Victorians "read" skin to the way in which Victorian readers (and subsequent literary critics) read works of literature and historical events (especially the French Revolution.) From blushing and flaying to scarring and tattooing, Victorian Skin tracks the fraught relationship between ourselves and our skin.
The Ancient World On The Victorian And Edwardian Stage
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Author : J. Richards
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-10-09
The Ancient World On The Victorian And Edwardian Stage written by J. Richards and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-09 with Performing Arts categories.
The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms.
Painting Antiquity
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Author : Stephanie Moser
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-14
Painting Antiquity written by Stephanie Moser and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-14 with Art categories.
Inspired by newly discovered antiquities of the ancient world exhibited in the museums of Europe and celebrated in the illustrated press of the day, the leading British history painters Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sir Edward Poynter and Edwin Long created a striking body of artworks in which archaeology was a prime focus. Of the growing community of historicist and classicist painters in mid-nineteenth century Britain, these artists expressed a passion for archaeological detail, and their aesthetic engagement with ancient material culture played a key role in fostering the enthusiasm for antiquity with wider audiences. Painting Antiquity explores the archaeological dimension of their paintings in detail, addressing how the relationship these artists had with ancient objects represented a distinctive and important development in the cultural reception of the past. The book also considers the inspiration for the movement defined as "archaeological genre painting," the artistic and historic context for this new style, the archaeological sources upon which the artworks were based, and the critical reception of the paintings in the world of Victorian art criticism. Alongside extensive visual evidence, rendered here in both striking color and black-and-white imagery, Stephanie Moser shows how this artistic practice influenced our understanding of ancient Egypt. Further, she argues that these paintings affected the development of archaeology as a discipline, revealing how the painters had an intense engagement with archaeology, representing artefacts in extraordinary detail and promoting the use of ancient material culture according to an aesthetic agenda. The issues raised by placing importance on concepts of beauty and decoration, over values such as rarity, function, or historical use continue to divide archaeologists and art historians in the present day. Ultimately, by demonstrating how the artistic dialogue with antiquity contributed to defining it, Painting Antiquity sheds important new light on the two-way exchanges between visual representations of the past and knowledge formation.