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Jun 02, 2026
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ARTH 110 - Stadium to Super Bowl: The Athletic Arts3 Credit Hours
This course is an introductory survey of the visual and material culture of sports and games from antiquity through the present, and we will treat themes such as the body and the ideal athlete, the development of the stadium and spectacular sport, medieval knightly combat, the codification of sport in modernity, the revival of the Olympics, and the visual culture of contemporary football. Art historical methods have significant purchase on interpreting the athletic arts not only because of the vast corpus of visual and material culture related to play, but also because the very foundation of the concept of play itself it related to mimesis, the same principle that underlies artistic representation.
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