Sandow on Physical Training: A Study in the Perfect Type of the Human Form 1894 - Couverture souple

Sandow Eugen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0766165434 ISBN 13 : 9780766165434

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing Co, 2003

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Biographie de l'auteur

"Eugen Sandow (April 2, 1867 – October 14, 1925), born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller, was a Prussian pioneering bodybuilder in the 19th century and is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Bodybuilding". Sandow was born in Königsberg, Prussia in 1867. He left Prussia in 1885 to avoid military service and in 1889 he made his first appearance on the London stage. Florenz Ziegfeld knew that Maurice Grau had Sandow under a contract. Ziegfeld wanted to display Sandow at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Grau wanted $1,000 a week. Ziegfeld could not guarantee $1,000 a week but agreed to paying 10 per cent of the gross receipts. Ziegfeld found that the audience was more fascinated by Sandow's bulging muscles than by the amount of weight he was lifting, so Ziegfeld had Sandow perform poses which he dubbed "muscle display performances"... and the legendary strongman added these displays in addition to performing his feats of strength with barbells. He added chain-around-the-chest breaking and other colorful displays to Sandow's routine. Sandow quickly became Ziegfeld's first star. In 1894, Sandow featured in a short film by the Edison Studios. The film was of only part of the show and features him flexing his muscles rather than performing any feats of physical strength. While the content of the film reflects the audience attention being primarily focused on his appearance it made use of the unique capacities of the new medium. Film theorists have attributed the appeal being the striking image of a detailed image moving in synchrony, much like the example of the Lumière brothers' Repas de bébé where audiences were reportedly more impressed by the movement of trees swaying in the background than the events taking place in the foreground. In 1894, he appeared in a short Kinetoscope film that was part of the first commercial motion picture exhibition in history. He created the Institute of Physical Culture, an early gymnasium for body builders in 1897. In 1898 Sandow founded a monthly periodical, originally named Physical Culture and subsequently named Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture. He held the first major bodybuilding contest at the Royal Albert Hall on September 14, 1901. It was called the "Great Competition". It was judged by Sandow, athlete and sculptor Sir Charles Lawes, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." - from Wikipedia

Présentation de l'éditeur

Physical Culture in Relation to the A rmy. The letter forms a pleasant pendant, much prized by Mr. Sandow, to the one which appears in the chapter referred to, from Colonel Fox, H. M. Inspector of Military Gymnasia for theB ritish army. The illustrations to the practical as well as to the narrative portions of the book will, it is believed, add no little to its value. To the courtesy of Messrs. Sarony of New York, Morrison of Chicago, and H. Eoland White of Birmingham, England, the publishers are indebted for permission to reproduce the photographs. The Editor takes advantage of this prefatory note to acknowledge his obligations toM r. Sandow and his pupil, Mr. Martinus Sieveking ;to Mr. W. T. Lawson, member of theN ew York Athletic Club ;to Dr. D. A. Sargent of the Hemen: way Gymnasium, Harvard University ;to Dr. Everett M. Culver of New York ;to Dr. W. Theophilus Stuart ofT oronto, Canada, and to the Publishers, for courtesies received during the preparation of the work. NEW YORK, February 1, 1894.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0766165434
• ISBN 13: 9780766165434
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 324
• Éditeur: Adam G. Mercer
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible