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Figure Skating and the Arts
Frances Dafoe
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Description for Figure Skating and the Arts
Num Pages: 192 pages, 321 b/w & color images. BIC Classification: WSWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 234 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1438.
The grace, speed, and beauty of ice skating has inspired painters and sculptors, graphic artists and photographers, film makers and choreographers of spectacles, and the designers of skates and costumes, medals, programs and posters, advertising dolls, and decorative objects. With 321 images, trace figure skating’s eight centuries of history. See the impact it has had on the visual and performing arts, from early depictions of animal bones tied to the feet to facilitate movement over frozen streams and lakes to the latest precision-engineered blades used by Olympic champions and the birth of contemporary free-style skating. Fans of figure skating, memorabilia ... Read more
The grace, speed, and beauty of ice skating has inspired painters and sculptors, graphic artists and photographers, film makers and choreographers of spectacles, and the designers of skates and costumes, medals, programs and posters, advertising dolls, and decorative objects. With 321 images, trace figure skating’s eight centuries of history. See the impact it has had on the visual and performing arts, from early depictions of animal bones tied to the feet to facilitate movement over frozen streams and lakes to the latest precision-engineered blades used by Olympic champions and the birth of contemporary free-style skating. Fans of figure skating, memorabilia ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764338038
SKU
V9780764338038
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Ref
99-2
About Frances Dafoe
Frances Dafoe, with her partner Norris Bowden, began competing as an ice dancer in 1950, winning several Canadian championships, the North American Pair championship, and World Pair championship. They competed at two Winter Olympic games, winning the silver medal in 1956.
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