Author: Heinz Schöbel
Publisher: Leipzig] : Edition Leipzig
ISBN:
Category : Art, Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Covers the life of Avery Brundage, active sportsman, sports leader, construction engineer, and art lover and collector.
The Four Dimensions of Avery Brundage
Author: Heinz Schöbel
Publisher: Leipzig] : Edition Leipzig
ISBN:
Category : Art, Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Covers the life of Avery Brundage, active sportsman, sports leader, construction engineer, and art lover and collector.
Publisher: Leipzig] : Edition Leipzig
ISBN:
Category : Art, Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Covers the life of Avery Brundage, active sportsman, sports leader, construction engineer, and art lover and collector.
Don't Need No Thought Control
Author: Gerd Horten
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789207347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The fall of the Berlin Wall is typically understood as the culmination of political-economic trends that fatally weakened the East German state. Meanwhile, comparatively little attention has been paid to the cultural dimension of these dramatic events, particularly the role played by Western mass media and consumer culture. With a focus on the 1970s and 1980s, Don’t Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay of popular unrest, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policies under Erich Honecker. It shows how the widespread influence of (and public demands for) Western cultural products forced GDR leaders into a series of grudging accommodations that undermined state power to a hitherto underappreciated extent.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789207347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The fall of the Berlin Wall is typically understood as the culmination of political-economic trends that fatally weakened the East German state. Meanwhile, comparatively little attention has been paid to the cultural dimension of these dramatic events, particularly the role played by Western mass media and consumer culture. With a focus on the 1970s and 1980s, Don’t Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay of popular unrest, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policies under Erich Honecker. It shows how the widespread influence of (and public demands for) Western cultural products forced GDR leaders into a series of grudging accommodations that undermined state power to a hitherto underappreciated extent.
The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany
Author: Kay Schiller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520262131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The 1972 Munich Olympics were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. In this cultural and political history of the Munich Olympics, the authors set these games into both the context of 1972 and the history of the modern Olympiad.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520262131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The 1972 Munich Olympics were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. In this cultural and political history of the Munich Olympics, the authors set these games into both the context of 1972 and the history of the modern Olympiad.
Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement
Author: John Grasso
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442248602
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 907
Book Description
The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins in 776 B.C., although it is suspected that the Games had been held for several centuries by that time. The Games were conducted as religious celebrations in honor of the god Zeus, and it is known that Olympia was a shrine to Zeus from about 1000 B.C. In modern time The Olympic Movement attempts to bring all the nations of the world together in a series of multisport festivals, the Olympic Games, seeking to use sport as a means to promote internationalism and peace. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of The Olympic Movement covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on the history, philosophy, and politics of the Olympics, major organizations, the various sports, the participating countries, and especially the athletes. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about The Olympic Movement.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442248602
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 907
Book Description
The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins in 776 B.C., although it is suspected that the Games had been held for several centuries by that time. The Games were conducted as religious celebrations in honor of the god Zeus, and it is known that Olympia was a shrine to Zeus from about 1000 B.C. In modern time The Olympic Movement attempts to bring all the nations of the world together in a series of multisport festivals, the Olympic Games, seeking to use sport as a means to promote internationalism and peace. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of The Olympic Movement covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on the history, philosophy, and politics of the Olympics, major organizations, the various sports, the participating countries, and especially the athletes. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about The Olympic Movement.
Indian and South-east Asian Stone Sculptures from the Avery Brundage Collection
Author: René Yvon Lefebvre d'Argencé
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Catalogue of an exhibition shown at Pasadena Art Museum, Nov. 22, 1969-Feb. 1, 1970 and at four other museums, Feb. 26-Dec. 31, 1970.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Catalogue of an exhibition shown at Pasadena Art Museum, Nov. 22, 1969-Feb. 1, 1970 and at four other museums, Feb. 26-Dec. 31, 1970.
Netting Out Basketball 1936
Author: Rich Hughes
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1770679707
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
1936 was the most significant year in basketball’s first half century. For the first time, Olympic basketball ended with a gold medal game. Dr. James Naismith was honored at the Berlin Olympics for his wonderful invention, as basketball achieved widespread international acceptance in a short period of time. 45 years after creating an exciting indoor sport for a physical education class, Naismith watched 23 countries vie for the gold. Boycotts protested Hitler’s policies within the Olympic host country of Germany, and as a result, politics and sports were forever linked. Other meaningful firsts for the 1935-36 playing season included controversy in the US Olympic Tryout system, a problematic lack of funding for US Olympians, and the actualization of new basketball strategies. Fast breaking offenses, dunking the ball, and full court zone pressure were important new techniques that radically changed the game. This book tells the little known story of the 1936 team which transformed basketball. The book documents the McPherson Refiners significant role in developing basketball’s faster, dynamic playing style. The mishaps and fortunes of the Refiners and three other AAU teams who placed men on Berlin’s muddy clay court will be the focus of the book.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1770679707
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
1936 was the most significant year in basketball’s first half century. For the first time, Olympic basketball ended with a gold medal game. Dr. James Naismith was honored at the Berlin Olympics for his wonderful invention, as basketball achieved widespread international acceptance in a short period of time. 45 years after creating an exciting indoor sport for a physical education class, Naismith watched 23 countries vie for the gold. Boycotts protested Hitler’s policies within the Olympic host country of Germany, and as a result, politics and sports were forever linked. Other meaningful firsts for the 1935-36 playing season included controversy in the US Olympic Tryout system, a problematic lack of funding for US Olympians, and the actualization of new basketball strategies. Fast breaking offenses, dunking the ball, and full court zone pressure were important new techniques that radically changed the game. This book tells the little known story of the 1936 team which transformed basketball. The book documents the McPherson Refiners significant role in developing basketball’s faster, dynamic playing style. The mishaps and fortunes of the Refiners and three other AAU teams who placed men on Berlin’s muddy clay court will be the focus of the book.
Rome 1960
Author: David Maraniss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416534075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
An account of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome reveals the competition's unexpected influence on the modern world, in a narrative synopsis that pays tribute to such athletes as Cassius Clay and Wilma Rudolph while evaluating the roles of Cold War propaganda, civil rights, and politics. 250,000 first printing.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416534075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
An account of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome reveals the competition's unexpected influence on the modern world, in a narrative synopsis that pays tribute to such athletes as Cassius Clay and Wilma Rudolph while evaluating the roles of Cold War propaganda, civil rights, and politics. 250,000 first printing.
The Gold in the Rings
Author: Stephen R Wenn
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025205153X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Once a showcase for amateur athletics, the Olympic Games have become a global entertainment colossus powered by corporate sponsorship and professional participation. Stephen R. Wenn and Robert K. Barney offer the inside story of this transformation by examining the far-sighted leadership and decision-making acumen of four International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidents: Avery Brundage, Lord Killanin, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and Jacques Rogge. Blending biography with historical storytelling, the authors explore the evolution of Olympic commercialism from Brundage's uneasy acceptance of television rights fees through the revenue generation strategies that followed the Salt Lake City bid scandal to the present day. Throughout, Wenn and Barney draw on their decades of studying Olympic history to dissect the personalities, conflicts, and controversies behind the Games' embrace of the business of spectacle. Entertaining and expert, The Gold in the Rings maps the Olympics' course from paragon of purity to billion-dollar profits.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025205153X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Once a showcase for amateur athletics, the Olympic Games have become a global entertainment colossus powered by corporate sponsorship and professional participation. Stephen R. Wenn and Robert K. Barney offer the inside story of this transformation by examining the far-sighted leadership and decision-making acumen of four International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidents: Avery Brundage, Lord Killanin, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and Jacques Rogge. Blending biography with historical storytelling, the authors explore the evolution of Olympic commercialism from Brundage's uneasy acceptance of television rights fees through the revenue generation strategies that followed the Salt Lake City bid scandal to the present day. Throughout, Wenn and Barney draw on their decades of studying Olympic history to dissect the personalities, conflicts, and controversies behind the Games' embrace of the business of spectacle. Entertaining and expert, The Gold in the Rings maps the Olympics' course from paragon of purity to billion-dollar profits.
A Decade of Collecting
Author: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Avery Brundage Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Never Enough
Author: John E. Burke PhD
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491772883
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
From a basic Boy Scout knife and other simple pocketknives to rare Persian rugs, and from a strong interest in historic American clay jugs to fine Asian jade pieces, author Dr. John E. Burke has collected it all. In Never Enough, he describes his life journey through collecting, and at the same time explores why man is a collecting species. This memoir offers a look inside the mind of a passionate, knowledgeable collector as he discusses his progression from a curious neophyte to a proficient, expert collector in each of his eight domains. Burke walks through the stages of how to gain knowledge and experience and how he personally mastered each of his collections. He narrates how he became a collector of antiques and explains his passion for the objects he collects. Offering a useful introduction to collecting. Never Enough focuses on Burkes personal aspects of collecting including his own motivations and those of other collectors, and, ultimately, the meaning and satisfaction of collecting.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491772883
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
From a basic Boy Scout knife and other simple pocketknives to rare Persian rugs, and from a strong interest in historic American clay jugs to fine Asian jade pieces, author Dr. John E. Burke has collected it all. In Never Enough, he describes his life journey through collecting, and at the same time explores why man is a collecting species. This memoir offers a look inside the mind of a passionate, knowledgeable collector as he discusses his progression from a curious neophyte to a proficient, expert collector in each of his eight domains. Burke walks through the stages of how to gain knowledge and experience and how he personally mastered each of his collections. He narrates how he became a collector of antiques and explains his passion for the objects he collects. Offering a useful introduction to collecting. Never Enough focuses on Burkes personal aspects of collecting including his own motivations and those of other collectors, and, ultimately, the meaning and satisfaction of collecting.