Picturing the Beautiful Game

Daniel Haxall is Professor of Art History at Kutztown University, USA.

Introduction
Picturing the Beautiful Game
Daniel Haxall

Part One: Soccer and Mass Media
1. From the Oval to the Crystal Palace: the FA Cup final and its depiction in the Victorian illustrated press
Alexander Leese
2. “Hours and hours of mundane moments and then you get this”: Motion and Punctuality in the Soccer GIF
Luke Healey

Part Two: Soccer and Memory
3. Making a Spectacle of Ourselves: Imaging the Supporter at Football and the Fine Arts
Mike O’Mahony
4. The Boss in Bronze: Three Statues of Brian Clough
Christopher Stride, Ffion Thomas, and Nick Catley

Part Three: Soccer and Modernism
5. The Footballer as the Figure of the New Man in Italian and Russian Avant-Garde, 1910s-1930s
Przemyslaw Strozek
6. From Free Agency to Captivity: Football and Spectacle inContemporary Art
Chris McAuliffe

Part Four: Soccer and Gender
7. Feminist Art and Women’s Soccer
Jennifer Doyle
8. Gender, Pleasure, and the Look: Female Fans and Men's Soccer
Carrie Dunn

Part Five: Soccer and Global Politics
9. The Politics of Soccer in Contemporary Ghanaian Art
Daniel Haxall
10. Adventures of the Triolectic: Art, Politics and Three-Sided Football
Christopher Collier

Part Six: Soccer and Commercialism
11. Over 100,000 Posters: the Unprecedented Commercialism of the 1966 World Cup in England
Jean Williams
12. Imagining Realty: Critical Responses to the Commercialization of the Beautiful Game
Ray Physick