Abstract
In modern art, sport and athleticism was represented as an image of vitality, agency and aspiration. After WWII, artists increasingly developed bleak images of soccer, using motifs of media spectacle, surveillance, crowd violence and commercialisation to address significant social and political change in postmodern culture. Analysing the work of artists from Spain, UK, Australia and Jordan, this chapter argues that captivity and containment now dominate the metaphorical representations of soccer.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art |
| Editors | Daniel Haxall |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Pages | 115-132 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781501334580 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2018 |