Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900-1945)

Andreas Kramer, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published widely on modern German literature, Expressionism, Dada, and the European avant-garde. Recent publications include the monograph Sport und literarischer Expressionismus (2019).Przemysław Strożek, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and Associate Researcher at the Archiv der Avantgarden, Dresden. He received his Ph.D. at his home institution. He publishes on and researches Central and Eastern European avant-gardes.

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Sport and the European Avant-Garde, 1900–1945Andreas Kramer and Przemysaw Stroek1 Vitalist Cubisms: The Biocultures of Virility, Militarism and La Vie SportiveFae Brauer2 The Aesthetics and Ideology of Sport in Italian FuturismGünter Berghaus3 Outside the Vortex?: Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde’s Indifference to SportJohn Hughson4 ‘Vive le sport!’ German Expressionism and DadaAndreas Kramer5 Sports and the Bauhaus: Bringing School to LifeJoann Skrypzak-Davidsmeyer6 A New Pitch: Art, Sport and the Impact of the Avant-Garde in the Soviet Union in the 1920sMike O’Mahony7 Worker Sport, Mountaineering and the Avant-garde Left in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland: On Sporting Content in ReD, Munka and DwigniaPrzemysaw Stroek8 After Purism: The Young Man’s Home at the 1935 Brussels ExhibitionBernard VereIndex