1.1 | Gustave Courtois, Persée délivrant Andromède, 1912, oil on canvas, exhibited at Salon National des Beaux-Arts, Grand Palais, Paris, 1912, Hotel de Ville de Baulmes Staircase, Gift of Maurice Deriaz. Public Domain | 23 |
1.2 | Pablo Picasso, Portrait-charge d’Apollinaire (La Culture physique), 1905, India ink on paper, 31 × 23, Collection of Lionel Prejger, present location unknown | 24 |
1.3 | Pablo Picasso, Bouteille de Vieux Marc, verre et journal, Spring 1913, Céret, charcoal, pasted-paper, paper épinglés and newspaper exert, ‘Le Congrès International de l’Éducation Physique’, Le Journal, 15 March 1913, 1, pasted on paper, 63 × 49 cm, Daix 600, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Donation Henri Laugier, 1963 – AM 2917 D | 28 |
1.4 | Francis Picabia, Culture Physique, 1913, oil on canvas, 89.5 × 116.5 cm, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Accession no. 1950-134-157. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris | 28 |
1.5 | Jean Metzinger, Au Vélodrome, 1912, oil and sand on canvas, 130.4 × 97.1 cm, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976 | 31 |
1.6 | Henri Rousseau, Les Joueurs de football, 1908, oil on canvas, 100.5 × 80.3 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Accession 60.1583 | 34 |
1.7 | W. van Hasselt, ‘Ecosse-France’, January 1913, The Times Online Digital Archive | 36 |
1.8 | Robert Delaunay, L’Équipe de Cardiff, 1913, oil on canvas, 326 cm × 208 cm, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Accession no. AMVP 1115. Public Domain | 37 |
1.9 | ‘LES TOULOUSAINS A PARIS’, ‘TOUCHE AUX TOULOUSAINS’, La Vie au Grand Air : revue illustré de tous les sports, no. 748, 18 January 1913, 43, courtesy of Bibliothèque Nationale de France Gallica | 38 |
1.10 | Cyrile Lowe being tackled by Jacques Dedet in the France-England Match, Paris, 1 January 1913, black and white photograph courtesy of Frederic Humbert. Public Domain | 39 |
1.11 | Albert Gleizes, Les Joueurs de football, 1912–13, oil on canvas, 225.4 × 183 cm, no. 1293, 29th Salon des Artistes Indépendants, 19 March-18 May 1913, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Public Domain | 39 |
1.12 | Robert Delaunay, Forme Circulaire: Le Soleil No. 1, 1912–13, oil on canvas, 100 cm × 81 cm, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum. Public Domain | 43 |
1.13 | Pablo Picasso, Compotier avec fruits, violon et verre, Autumn-Winter 1912–13, Paris, charcoal, black chalk, watercolour, oil paint, course charcoal and pigment in binding medium on applied papers, including newspaper excerpts cut from Le Journal – ‘LA VIE SPORTIVE’, 6 December 1913, 8, and ‘L’Apparition’, 9 December 1912, 5; mounted on cardboard, 65.2 × 50.2 cm, Daix 530, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Public Domain | 47 |
1.14 | André Lhote, Partie de rugby, 1917, oil on canvas, 89.7 × 116.3 cm, Réunion des Musées Nationaux Saint-Quentin, Musée Antoine Lécuyer. © ADAGP, photo RMN-Grand Palais - G. Blot | 49 |
2.1 | A page from the Almanacco dello sport: La vita sportive dell’Italia e dell’Estero in tutte le sue manifestazioni. La guerra e lo sport. vol. 3. Firenze: Bemporad, 1916. It shows five Futurist members of the Lombard Battalion of Volunteer Cyclists and Automobilists: Boccioni, Piatti, Marinetti, Sironi and Sant’Elia | 64 |
2.2 | Marinetti as ‘volontario ciclista’ with a shotgun in Sport illustrato 3, no. 13 (30 July 1915), 326 | 66 |
2.3 | A group of Volunteer Cyclists and Motorists departing Milan in May 1915 to be trained for frontline military service | 68 |
2.4 | Ottorino Aloisio, ‘L’Università dello Sport.’ Rassegna di architettura: Rivista mensile di architettura e decorazione 7:6 (15 June 1929), 220–226. The design also featured in the catalogue Concours et exposition d’art olympique (Amsterdam 1928) as no. 404, Lo sport fascista 1:3 (August 1928), 88 and La rivista illustrata del Popolo d’Italia 6:8 (August 1928), 45 | 75 |
2.5 | ‘Apotheosis of Sport’ in Luigi Manzotti’s ballet Sport at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, in 1897 | 76 |
2.6 | Zdenka Podhajská in one of her sport dances at the Teatro delle Feste in Turin on 22 June 1928. Although the caption in this unidentified newspaper states that this is an evocation of Foot-ball by František Hradil, the costume looks more like the Danza dell’elica (Dance of the Propeller) performed at the same occasion | 79 |
3.1 | William Roberts, Boxers, 1914, pencil, pen and ink, and collage, 60.5 cm × 53.5 cm. © The Estate of John David Roberts | 91 |
3.2 | William Roberts, Boxing Match, Novices, 1914, listed by John David Roberts Estate as Novices (aka The Boxing Match), c. 1921, pencil, pen, ink and watercolour, 50.9 cm × 35.6 cm. © The Estate of John David Roberts | 92 |
3.3 | Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, Any Wintry Afternoon in England, 1930, oil on canvas, 61.1 × 76.3 cm, Machester Art Gallery | 101 |
3.4 | Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, Study to Returning to the Trenches, 1914–15, drypoint, 15.2 × 20.2 cm. Public domain | 102 |
4.1 | Max Pechstein, Hürdenläufer (1912), woodcut, 18.5 × 30 cm. From: Günter Krüger: Das druckgraphische Werk Max Pechsteins (Tökendorf: R.C. Pechstein-Verlag, 1988), N 133. © Pechstein Hamburg-Tökendorf / DACS 2021 | 113 |
4.2 | Heinrich Richter-Berlin, Der Torsteher. From: Der Sturm, 3, no. 111 (18 May 1912), 53 | 115 |
4.3 | William Wauer, Boxer, c. 1918, bronze statuette, 36.6 cm | 121 |
4.4 | Rudolf Großmann, Boxer, 1920, hand-coloured lithograph, 31.3 × 28 cm. From: Die Schaffenden, ed. Paul Westheim (Leipzig: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag), vol. 2 (1920), 4. Mappe. © Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale) (CC-BY-NC-SA) | 123 |
4.5 | Erwin Blumenfeld, Mariquis de Sade, 1921, collage on paper, 25 × 25.4 cm, The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. © 2020 Henry and Yorick Blumenfeld and Yvette Blumenfeld Georges Deeton | 126 |
4.6 | Cover of the newspaper “Jedermann sein eigner Fussball” (Every Man His Own Football), vol 1, no. 1, 15 February 1919: Editor: Wieland Herzfelde, Malik Verlag, Berlin. Cover illustrations: John Heartfield: ‘Wieland Herzfelde als Progress-Dada’; George Grosz: ‘Galerie deutscher Mannesschönheit’ | 128 |
4.7 | Max Ernst, Vive le sport! aka Le santé par le sport, 1921, photograph of photomontage, Kunsthaus Zurich; taken from Hanne Bergius: Montage und Metamechanik: Dada Berlin – Artistik von Polaritäten (Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2000), 404 | 130 |
5.1 | T. Lux Feininger, Der Sprung über das Bauhaus (Jump over the Bauhaus), ca. 1927, gelatin silver print, 23.7 × 17.9 cm, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Photo courtesy Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. © Estate of T. Lux Feininger | 136 |
5.2 | T. Lux Feininger, Gymnastik der Frauen auf dem Dach des Bauhauses (Women’s Gymnastics on the Bauhaus Roof), 1930, gelatin silver print, 8.5 × 11.5 cm, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Photo courtesy Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. © Estate of T. Lux Feininger | 147 |
5.3 | Oskar Schlemmer, Entwurf für eine moderne Wandmalerei (Design for a Modern Mural Painting), 1928, watercolor, pencil, 79.5 × 56 cm, Essen, Museum Folkwang, Graphische Sammlung, photo. © Museum Folkwang Essen - ARTOTHEK | 149 |
5.4 | László Moholy-Nagy, In the Name of the Law (Massenpsychose), 1927, collage, pencil and ink, 64.1 × 49.2 cm, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York, purchase with funds from Eastman Kodak Company, 1981.2163.0049, photo courtesy of the George Eastman Museum | 152 |
6.1 | Aleksandr Deineka, Football, 1924, oil on canvas, 105 × 113.5 cm, Collection Vladimir Tsarenkov | 163 |
6.2 | Yurii Pimenov, Football, 1926, oil on canvas, 134.5 × 89.5 cm, House Museum of Boris Kustodiev, Astrakhan | 164 |
6.3 | Gustav Klutsis, Sport, 1922, photomontage, from Proletarskoye Studentchestvo (Proletarian Students), 1923, no. 2, Latvian Museum of Art, Riga | 167 |
6.4 | El Lissitzky, Footballer (illustration for Six Tales with Easy Endings), 1921-22, photocollage, pencil, gouache, ink on cardboard, 33 × 24.3 cm, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow | 168 |
7.1 | František Píšek on Physical Culture in Soviet Russia, ReD 1928, no. 4, photo courtesy Archiv der Avantgarden – Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden | 188 |
7.2 | [Karel Teige?], [photomontage], ReD 1928, no. 6, photo courtesy Jindřich Toman | 190 |
7.3 | ReD 1928, no. 10. On the cover a sketch for a Stadion for the 2nd Spartakiad in Prague by Jaromír Krejcar, photo courtesy Jindřich Toman | 191 |
7.4 | Cover of Munka 1928, no. 1, photo courtesy courtesy Petőfi Literary Museum–Kassák Museum, Budapest | 194 |
7.5 | Article showing amateur photographs of worker athletes from MTE sports club, Munka 1928, no. 1, photo courtesy Petőfi Literary Museum–Kassák Museum, Budapest | 195 |
7.6 | Article on MTE photo-group by Lajos Gró, Munka 1930, no. 14, photo courtesy Petőfi Literary Museum–Kassák Museum, Budapest | 197 |
7.7 | Page from Blok 1924, no. 6–7, photo courtesy Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw | 200 |
7.8 | Page from Dźwignia 1927, no. 2–3, 28, photo courtesy Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw | 201 |
7.9 | Dźwignia 1927, no. 5, cover by Teresa Żarnowerówna, photo courtesy Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw | 203 |
7.10 | Page from Dźwignia 1928, no. 9, 48, photo courtesy Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw | 204 |
7.11 | Illustration by Mieczysław Szczuka from Anatol Stern, Europa, Warsaw 1929, photo courtesy Archiv der Avantgarden – Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden | 205 |
8.1 | Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret, René Herbst, Fernand Léger and Louis Sognot, A Young Man’s Home, installation at the Brussels Exposition, 1935, view of the study looking towards the gymnasium | 212 |
8.2 | Fernand Léger, Exercises Room, 1935, oil on canvas, 235 × 396 cm private collection, Tokyo. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2021 | 212 |
8.3 | Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, view of the study of Young Man’s Home, 1935 showing plan of the apartment with names of contributors and Fernand Léger, Aloes, 1935 | 215 |
8.4 | René Herbst, gymnasium for Young Man’s Home, 1935, view looking towards the solarium, bathroom and bedroom 223 |