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The first book ever written on the subject!

This is the history of one of the most important cultural collaborations of the 20th Century, the joining of art and sport. Here is the story of how the fine arts were briefly included as competition events in the modern Olympic Games from 1912 through 1948.

 The artistic venues were:

Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Music and Literature.

Recounted for the first time within the pages of this book are the ideas and techniques that briefly created a union of these disparate worlds. Follow them as they conducted what were the Olympic Art Competitions of the 20th Century.

In this volume you will meet the people who forged that union and those who destroyed it. You will also discover why so few have ever heard of these competitions. Here too are the results of the art events and your opportunity to meet a few of the artists who pursued their quest for Olympic Gold.

No book has ever before been published on these events. Few people know the Olympic Games have always included competitions in the arts since their origin in ancient Olympia over two thousand years ago. The first art competitor in Olympia was said to be Herodotus, the historical writer in 444 B.C. He was garlanded as well as the winners of the gymnastic and track matches. The history of those Olympic art competitions was lost over a millennia ago. Do not miss your opportunity to add this volume on the history of the art competitions in the modern Olympic Games to your reference library.

About the author:

When the author could not find a book about the Olympic Art Competitions he embarked upon a quest to learn as much as possible about these events. He spent over seven years researching primary source documents from around the world dealing with these competitions and has woven the story they tell into "The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions," the first book to be published on this subject. The author, is a freelance researcher / writer and a member of the International Society of Olympic Historians.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

SECTION I - THE STORY

CHAPTER 01 - A Dream is Born (The beginning)
CHAPTER 02 - Is It A Good Idea? (Conference 1906)
CHAPTER 03 - On Your Mark! (London 1908)
CHAPTER 04 - Back to the Starting Blocks (Conference Luxembourg 1910)
CHAPTER 05 - A Practice Lap (Paris 1911)
CHAPTER 06 - Off & Running (Stockholm 1912)
CHAPTER 07 - Interference (The Great War)
CHAPTER 08 - From the Trenches to the Galleries (Antwerp 1920)
CHAPTER 09 - What Did We Learn? (Conference Lausanne 1921)
CHAPTER 10 - The Grand Season of Art (Paris 1924)
CHAPTER 11 - The Problem of the Judges (Conference Paris 1924)
CHAPTER 12 - Rembrandt's House (Amsterdam 1928)
CHAPTER 13 - Hollywood or Bust (Los Angeles 1932)
CHAPTER 14 - Blitzkrieg on the Arts (Berlin 1936)
CHAPTER 15 - Empire of the Rising Sun (Tokyo 1940)
CHAPTER 16 - The Tower of London (London 1948)
CHAPTER 17 - Throwing of the Gauntlet (The Contentious Conferences)
CHAPTER 18 - Setting of the Midnight Sun (Helsinki 1952)
CHAPTER 19 - The Coup de Grâce (Conference Athens 1954)
CHAPTER 20 - The Wake (Melbourne 1956 and beyond)

SECTION II - MEET A FEW OLYMPIANS

Grazyna Bacewicz (Poland)
Walter Battiss (South Africa)
Arno Breker (Germany)
Rembrandt Bugatti (Italy)
Baron de Coubertin (Hohrod & Escbach (Germany)
Percy Crosby (USA)
Alex W. Diggelmann (Switzerland)
Oliver St. John Gogarty (Ireland)
Alfred Hajos (Hungary)
Jean Jacoby (Luxembourgh)
Dame Laura Knight (England)
Bunya Koh (Japan)
Paul Landowski (France)
Alphonse Laverriere (Switzerland)
R.Tate McKenzie (Canada)
Josef Suk (Czechoslovakia)
Aale Tynni (Finland)
Walter Winans (USA)
Jack B. Yeats (Ireland)

Mahonri Young (USA)
Misc. Mini-Photo Gallery

SECTION III - RESULTS, LISTS & OTHER CURIOSITIES

Art Category Awards
Art Awards by Country

Odds & Ends

Surnames

 What the reviewers are saying:

from the ISOH "Journal of Olympic History" :

"...this happens to be the very first time an overall and complete history of the Olympic Art Competitions has ever been published. Richard Stanton has done a wonderful and thorough research on this particular subject.
...with the result that we now have an almost complete insight in the efforts Coubertin put into making possible the union of sports and arts in the Olympic Games.
...describes the circumstances (and the persons involved) that made an end to the Olympic Art Competitions and finally changed them into Olympic Art Exhibitions.
...the whole story unfolds before us in a dramatic way.
...for those of us who are interested in statistics, the full list .. is the end of this interesting book."

from Olympika, the International Journal of Olympic Studies

"... The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions chronicles the correspondence, negotiations, confrontations, and, ultimately, the results of the art competitions between 1912 and 1948. Stanton tells his story with primary sources. He provides the chronological order for a vast number of letters, treatises, rules, and excerpts from Olympic programs. By choosing this tactic, the book functions as a clearinghouse for historical documents related to this particular topic. As such, the book can be quite valuable to historians. Providing the content is accurately reproduced, this collection of primary sources, especially the correspondence, ought to spark a great many questions for analytical historians. ..."

What other historians are saying:

...ground breaking...
...it is a masterpiece of research and extremely interesting...
...I have thoroughly enjoyed your book and I pay you my sincere compliments with a job well done!...
...much has been written about the Olympic Games but next to nothing about the art events... a truly pioneering work...
...I have been very impressed by your book and it certainly was time for collecting this information...
...we will cherish it...
...I learned a lot about the Olympic Art Competitions and the artists...

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