Boxer : an anthology of writings on boxing and visual culture / [edited by David Chandler and others].

Other author Chandler, David.
Other author Institute of International Visual Arts.
Other author Walsall Museum and Art Gallery.
Format Book
Edition1st MIT Press ed.
Publication InfoLondon, England : Institute of International Visual Arts ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996.
Description134 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 28 cm
Subjects
Boxing in art.
Boxers (Sports) in art.
Boxing.
Sports in motion pictures.

Contents Introduction : the pictures of boxing / David Chandler -- On boxing / Joyce Carol Oates -- Pugilism, painters and national identity in early nineteenth-century England / Marcia Pointon -- From Joe Louis to the sluggers--boxing mediated / Ian Jeffrey -- James Coleman's Box (Ahhareturnabout) / Jean Fisher -- Skin tight / Glenn Ligon -- Four corners : a contest of opposites / Keith Piper -- The ring of impossibility, or, The failure to recover authenticity in the recent cinema of boxing / David Mellor -- The noble art : boxing and visual culture in early eighteenth-century Britain / Sarah Hyde -- Arthur Cravan : stances of the century / Roger Lloyd Conover -- Raging bulls : sexuality and the boxing movie / Nick James -- Bruising Peg to boxerobics : gendered boxing--images and meanings / Jennifer Hargreaves.
General notePublished in conjunction with the exhibition "Boxer", curated by John Gill and produced by Walsall Museum & Art Gallery in association with the Institute of International Visual Arts, July 29-Sept. 10, 1995.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 96075615
ISBN0262531437 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks N8250 .B69 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold