Showers in the Prague Sokol Club by Miloš Jiránek (1903)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61988987:17250/23:A2402LAJ

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Showers in the Prague Sokol Club by Miloš Jiránek (1903)

Original language description

This study focuses on the controversial painting of the artist and Sokol gymnast Miloš Jiránek “The Showers in the Prague Sokol Club”, which was created in 1901–1903 and depicts an erotic theme: naked male bodies in showers. The paper points out that the muscular body of Sokol exercisers was perceived in the national milieu thanks to founder of the Prague Sokol club Miroslav Tyrš primarily as a symbol of national strength and aesthetic object, but that is precisely why it had also a very strong potential to become an object of sexual desire of both male and female spectators. The same was true of the body of the female gymnasts, who began to be described, depicted and publicly exhibited a bit later than the body of the male exercisers. Sokol gyms and public Sokol festivals were thus a highly frequented places where diverse visions and practices of phenomena summarized today under the terms heterosexuality, homosexuality or transgender originated and clashed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

A History of Sport in Europe in 100 Objects

ISBN

978-3-96423-107-9

Number of pages of the result

4

Pages from-to

398-401

Number of pages of the book

440

Publisher name

Arete

Place of publication

Hildesheim

UT code for WoS chapter

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