Picturing the Workers' Olympics and the Spartakiads
Modernist and Avant-Garde Engagement with Sport in Central Europe and the USSR, 1920-1932
- 216 pages
- 8 hours of reading
This volume focuses on the modernist and avant-garde engagement with workers' sport events that were organised or were planned to be organised in the cities of Central Europe and the USSR in the period of 1920-1932: Frankfurt am Main - Vienna - Moscow - Prague - Budapest - Berlin. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The New Great Power. The First Workers' Olympics in Frankfurt am Main as a Socialist Olympia, 1925 2. The Giants at the Prater Stadium. Visualising the Second Workers' Olympics in the Socialist Paradise: the Red Vienna, 1931 3. 'Every Worker-Athlete Must be a Soldier of the Revolution'. From Vsevobuch to Gustav Klucis's Spartakiada series, 1928 4. The Communist Workers' Sport for the Revolution, for the Proletariat, for the People. Dev tsil, FPT and the Visual Propaganda of the Second Spartakiad in Prague, 1928 5. The Collective Embodiment of the Red Man. Workers' Physical Training Association, Munka Circle and Worker Photography in Budapest 6. 'Overcoming all Obstacles - Red Sport!' Visualising solidarity and hope for Communist Sport in Berlin, 1931-1932 7. Conclusion
