Picturing the Workers' Olympics and the Spartakiads
Modernist and Avant-Garde Engagement with Sport in Central Europe and the USSR, 1920-1932
Przemysław Strożek
Picturing the Workers' Olympics and the Spartakiads
Modernist and Avant-Garde Engagement with Sport in Central Europe and the USSR, 1920-1932
Przemysław Strożek
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Description
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.
Przemysław Strożek is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences and an Associate Researcher and curator at the Archiv der Avantgarden, Dresden. He was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Georgia, a fellow at the Accademia dei Lincei and recipient of a Korea Foundation fellowship. He is the author of several dozen academic articles, and published extensively his research on sport and the avant-garde, as well as on sport and contemporary art. Together with Andreas Kramer he has co-edited Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900–1945). He has curated numerous exhibitions, including an exhibition on Polish-Moroccan artistic relations at the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw.