Court on canvas : tennis in art
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Court on canvas : tennis in art
Philip Wilson, 2011
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-157) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A celebration and exploration of the origins of the game in Birmingham and the ways in which tennis has inspired artists from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.
Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art guides us from the origins of the game as a genteel pastime for the upper classes, through its codification as a sport, to the international high earning power game of today. It illustrates the changes in fashion associated with the sport and the important role tennis played in the emancipation of women in the early part of the twentieth century.
The book contains a survey of images of tennis in art from the 1870s onwards, and detailed examinations of the works are placed in a wider social, historical and art historical context.
Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Pat-ball tennis to the Fury of the Modern Game: The Changing Image of Lawn Tennis in Britain (Ann Sumner)
Chapter 2 - Edgbaston's Gem of a Game: the Origins of Lawn Tennis (Robert Holland)
Chapter 3 - Tennis parties (Kenneth McConkey)
Chapter 4 - Tennis and the Artist, 1870-2010 (Ann Sumner)
Chapter 5 - Tennis Fashions in the Frame (Susan J Elks)
Artists' Biographies
Bibliography
Index
Photo credits
Authors' Biographies
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