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Ephemeral Material From The Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games
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Book Synopsis Documenting the Beijing Olympics by : D.P. Martinez
Download or read book Documenting the Beijing Olympics written by D.P. Martinez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics – ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word – and the meanings generated by such representations. What were the ‘key’ stories and how were they chosen? What was dramatised? Who were the heroes? Which ‘clashes’ were highlighted and how? What sorts of stories did the notion of ‘human interest’ generate? Did politics take a backseat or was the topic highlighted repeatedly? Thus, the focus was not on the success or failure of this event, but on the ways in which the Olympics Games, as international and historic events, are memorialised by observers. The key question that this book addresses is: How far would the Olympic coverage fall into the patterns of representation that have come to dominate Olympic reporting and what would China, as a discursive subject, bring to these patterns? This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Book Synopsis A Simple Souvenir by : Peter G. Van Alfen
Download or read book A Simple Souvenir written by Peter G. Van Alfen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated catalogue of the ANS exhibit, "Full Circle: The Olympic Heritage in Coins and Medals," the author examines the role that numismatic material relating to both the ancient and modern Games has played in social and political contexts. In addition to the introductory essay, the catalogue provides a brief overview of the history of the Games and discusses over 130 objects, including ancient Greek coins, vases and sporting equipment, as well as modern medals, coins, and Olympic ephemera.
Book Synopsis London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by : Tom Knight
Download or read book London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games written by Tom Knight and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A limited, leather bound , individually numbered edition of the magnificent official celebration of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. A glorious keepsake of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, full of unforgettable images, powerful quotes and fascinating statistics. It traces the whole incredible story, from early preparation through the creation of the Olympic Park, the Torch Relay and the innovative Cultural Olympiad. It explores both Games in detail, revealing how record–breaking athletes, spectators, volunteers and locals have all made London 2012 their own. Beautifully designed and featuring the Games′ most evocative photography and a foreword by Sebastian Coe KBE, London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: The Commemorative Book captures the magical atmosphere of a once in a lifetime event. Only 2012 have been produced and will only be available for sale until the end of the year.
Download or read book To Life! written by Linda Weintraub and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.
Download or read book No Logo written by Naomi Klein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-01-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
Book Synopsis Olympic Cities by : John Robert Gold
Download or read book Olympic Cities written by John Robert Gold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic Games, starting from the year 1896. Blending critical conceptual insight with grounded case studies, this book, divided into three parts, explores the historical experience of staging the Olympics from the point of view of the host city.
Download or read book The Last Utopia written by Samuel Moyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Book Synopsis Retreat from Doomsday by : John Mueller
Download or read book Retreat from Doomsday written by John Mueller and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Communicating Science by : Toss Gascoigne
Download or read book Communicating Science written by Toss Gascoigne and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession—and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We have seen the birth of interactive science centres, the first university actions in teaching and conducting research, and a sharp growth in employment of science communicators. This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication. How did it all begin? How has development varied from one country to another? What motivated governments, institutions and people to see science communication as an answer to questions of the social place of science? Communicating Science describes the pathways followed by 39 different countries. All continents and many cultures are represented. For some countries, this is the first time that their science communication story has been told.
Book Synopsis Babar's Celesteville Games by : Laurent de Brunhoff
Download or read book Babar's Celesteville Games written by Laurent de Brunhoff and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babar and his family are thrilled that Celesteville is hosting the Games This is their chance to see the best athletes from all over the world compete and to meet new people from other countries. Everyone is wide-eyed as gymnasts fly through the air, divers make a splash, and cyclists race to the finish line In addition, Babar and Celeste's children are all grown up, and romance is in the air. Babar's daughter, Flora, likes to watch the handsome pole-vaulter Cory, from the country of Mirza. One day the two meet in the park, and love soon follows. When Cory asks Flora to marry him, everyone must come together to help them have a magnificent Mirzi wedding. Babar's Celesteville Games is a grand tale about sportsmanship, love, and diversity. Praise for Babar's Celesteville Games "From a franchise as sturdy as an elephant's memory comes explicit international goodwill. The book's appeal lies in these calmingly recognizable characters participating in Olympic sports and a mixed marriage." -Kirkus Reviews
Book Synopsis Visual Global Politics by : Roland Bleiker
Download or read book Visual Global Politics written by Roland Bleiker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a visual age. Images and visual artefacts shape international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, film and television influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, diplomacy, financial crises and election campaigns. Other visual fields, from art and cartoons to maps, monuments and videogames, frame how politics is perceived and enacted. Drones, satellites and surveillance cameras watch us around the clock and deliver images that are then put to political use. Add to this that new technologies now allow for a rapid distribution of still and moving images around the world. Digital media platforms, such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, play an important role across the political spectrum, from terrorist recruitment drives to social justice campaigns. This book offers the first comprehensive engagement with visual global politics. Written by leading experts in numerous scholarly disciplines and presented in accessible and engaging language, Visual Global Politics is a one-stop source for students, scholars and practitioners interested in understanding the crucial and persistent role of images in today’s world.
Book Synopsis The Cultural Cold War by : Frances Stonor Saunders
Download or read book The Cultural Cold War written by Frances Stonor Saunders and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
Download or read book Olympic Stadia written by Geraint John and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olympic Stadia provides a comprehensive account of the development of stadia including but not limited to: developments in running tracks, the introduction of lighting, improvements in spectator viewing standards and the introduction of roofs. Written by a world-renowned expert on sports architecture, the book: Systematically analyses every stadium from Athens 1896 to Tokyo 2020 Provides drawings, plans, elevations, photographs and illustrations in full colour Considers the fundamental changes wrought by the incorporation of the Paralympic Games Looks at the impact on host cities and their urban infrastructure, and considers the long-term legacies and massive investments that Olympic stadia require Explores the effects of the demands of the world's TV broadcasters. An invaluable and beautiful resource for practical insight and inspiration, this book makes essential reading for anyone interested in Olympic stadia.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Olympic Games by : R. D. Binfield
Download or read book The Story of the Olympic Games written by R. D. Binfield and published by Hadley Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY of the OLYMPIC GAMJiS by R. D. BINFIELD. Contents include: INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . .... . . ix I THE ANCIENT GAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 II THE REVIVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 III THE TRACK EVENTS 34 IV THE MARATHON 57 V WALKING EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 VI THE FIELD EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 VII WOMENS EVENTS 80 VIII THE MODERN PENTATHLON . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 IX CYCLING. By W. J. Mills 85 X WRESTLING. By George Mackenzie 93 XI WEIGHT-LIFTING. By Oscar State 99 XII SWIMMING. By Janet Bassett-Lowke 103 XIII ROWING. By Jack Beresford 113 XIV CANOEING. By John W. Dudderidge 123 XV YACHT RACING. By Frank Eyre 129 XVI HOCKEY 133 XVII ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL . . . . ., . . . . 134 XVIII FENCING 136 XIX BOXING 140 XX OTHER COMPETITIONS 144 XXI OLYMPIC STAMPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 METRICAL CONVERSION TABLES . . . . . . . . 149 SOME TECHNICAL TERMS . . . . . . . . . . 153 OLYMPIC GAMES, 1948 157 THE MARATHON COURSE, 1948 183 THE ROAD WALK COURSE, 1948 184 LIST OF PLATES PLATE 1 Scene in a wrestling school from a wine-jar, about 530 B. C.. . A long distance race about 470 B. C.. 2 Members of the International Olympic Committee, 1896. Loues wins the marathon of 1896. 3 The British team parade at Berlin. The Olympic fire at Berlin. 4 Jesse Owens, starting in the 100 m. at Berlin. P. Williams Canada wins the 1928 100 m. The 100 m. final of 1932. 5 J. Woodruff U. S. A. winning the 800 m. at Berlin. Douglas Lowe, winner of the 1924 800 m. Americas record-breaking 400 m. relay team at Berlin. 6 Albert Hill G. B. wins the 800 m. at Antwerp. W. Roberts hands over in the 1,600 m. relay at Berlin. 7 Lovelocks 1,500 m. 1936, the end of the first lap. The finish. Cunningham congratulates the winner. 8 Percy Hodge wins the steeplechase at Antwerp. Ritola and Nurmi, in the 10,000 m. at Amsterdam. Iso-Hollo Finland takes the water-jump. 9 How the recording camera settles close finishes. 10 L. Lehtinen Finland in the 5,000 m. at Los Angeles. 11 12 13 14 FACING PAGE 17 Paul Popper o Keystone Central Press Central Press V 33 Central Press Paul Popper Central Press V 48 Paul Popper Paul Popper Sport and General 49 Associated Press Central Press V 64 Paul Popper Central Press Central Press 65 Paul Popper Planet News 80 Central Press Glen Hardin U. S. A. holder of the Olympic 400 m. hurdles record. Associated Press Tom Hampson G. B. wins the 800 m. at Los Angeles. Central Press J The runners in the 5,000 m. final at Berlin. Paul Popper R. M. N. Tisdall wins the 400 m. hurdles at Los Angeles. Central Press J The 1908 Marathon. Central Press Dorando finishes. Topical Press 81 85 K. Son Japan and E. Harper G. B. in the Berlin Marathon. Paul Poppet Planet News I G. E. Larner G. B. winning the 10 miles walk in 1908. Central Press f Harold Whitlock G. B. wins the 50 km. walk at Berlin. Planet News Three high jumpers. Cornelius Johnson U. S. A., winner at Berlin. Associated Press 1 H. M. Osborn U. S. A. wins in 1924 Central Press Dorothy Odam G. B. who finished second at Berlin. Associated Press vii PLATE FACING PAGE 15 L. Long Germany and Jesse Owens in the long jump at Berlin. I Associated Press Central Press V 96 D. Hart Hubbard U. S. A. wins at Paris in 1924. Central Press 16 Three pole-vaulters at Berlin. Earl Meadows U. S. A., the winner. Paul Popper S. Nishida of Japan, second. Paul Popper 97 F. R. Webster, Britains finest vaulter. Central Press 17 Hammer, discus and javelin J. Flanagan U. S. A., winner in 1900, 1904 and 1908. Topical Press K. Carpenter U. S. A., who won at Berlin. Paul Popper v 1 1 6 Lemming Sweden, winner in 1908. Central Press 18 Helen Stephens U. S. A. wins the womens 100 m. at Berlin. Paul Popper 1 1 7 Heat of the womens 80 m...
Book Synopsis The Photomontages of Hannah Höch by : Hannah Höch
Download or read book The Photomontages of Hannah Höch written by Hannah Höch and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, in the first comprehensive survey of her work by an American museum, authors Peter Boswell, Maria Makela, and Carolyn Lanchner survey the full scope of Hoch's half-century of experimentation in photomontage - from her politically charged early works and intimate psychological portraits of the Weimar era to her later forays into surrealism and abstraction.
Book Synopsis Revolt and Crisis in Greece by : Antonis Vradis
Download or read book Revolt and Crisis in Greece written by Antonis Vradis and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 2008, the world watched as Greece plunged into-an unprecedented crisis, both social and economic, the effects of which would be felt around the world. In this new volume of essays edited and introduced by members of the Occupied London collective, over two dozen writers analyze the Greek uprising, contextualising the city and state from which it arose, exploring the waves of crisis that followed in its wake, and theorising the future of global revolt. Book jacket.
Download or read book Drawing Futures written by Bob Sheil and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing Futures brings together international designers and artists for speculations in contemporary drawing for art and architecture.Despite numerous developments in technological manufacture and computational design that provide new grounds for designers, the act of drawing still plays a central role as a vehicle for speculation. There is a rich and long history of drawing tied to innovations in technology as well as to revolutions in our philosophical understanding of the world. In reflection of a society now underpinned by computational networks and interfaces allowing hitherto unprecedented views of the world, the changing status of the drawing and its representation as a political act demands a platform for reflection and innovation. Drawing Futures will present a compendium of projects, writings and interviews that critically reassess the act of drawing and where its future may lie.Drawing Futures focuses on the discussion of how the field of drawing may expand synchronously alongside technological and computational developments. The book coincides with an international conference of the same name, taking place at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, in November 2016. Bringing together practitioners from many creative fields, the book discusses how drawing is changing in relation to new technologies for the production and dissemination of ideas.
