Sport and Art: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport

by Andrew Edgar

Sport and Art explores relationship of sport to art. It does not argue that sport is one of the arts, but rather that sport and art hold common ground. Both are ways in which humans confront philosophical challenges, though they do this through very different media. While art deploys sensual media such as paint or sound, sport is the pursuit of a physical challenge at which the athlete may fail. This is to propose, in an argument that has its roots...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032928662
• ISBN13: 9781032928661
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages