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Olympic visions : images of the games through history
- Title
- Olympic visions : images of the games through history / Mike O'Mahony.
- Author
- O'Mahony, Mike.
- Publication
- London : Reaktion Books, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | N8250 .O56 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 175 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
- Summary
- Explores how painters and sculptors, photographers and filmmakers, and architects and designers have helped to affect the consciousness of Olympic spectators around the world.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- 其他题名:Images of the games through history.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-168) and index.
- Contents
- Imaging the ancient Olympics -- The birth of the modern Olympic games -- A suitable activity for a woman? -- Celluloid games -- The Russians are coming!: the Olympics and the Cold War -- Olympic transgressions: drugs, political protest, and terrorism -- Promoting the games: publicity and the official Olympic poster -- Designs on the Olympics: from stadia to sporting paraphernalia.
- ISBN
- 9781861899101
- 1861899106
- LCCN
- 7116553
- OCLC
- ocn760973130
- 760973130
- SCSB-1644869
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library