Creator
Carl Blüme
Title
Sport der Hellenen: Ausstellung griechischer Bildwerke, Museum zu Berlin
Coverage
Berlin
Publisher
Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft
Date
1936
Description
My interest in the appropriation of classical antiquity to promote national ideologies led me to this catalogue of a major archaeological exhibition that accompanied the elaborate pageantry of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Noted archaeologist Carl Blümel (1893-1976) is credited as editor, but recent scholarship suggests that the exhibition was created by archaeologist and pioneering sports historian Alfred Schiff (1863-1939), unacknowledged because he was Jewish. This copy is inscribed by F. Kinchin Smith (1895-1958), a prominent British classicist.
Source
From the collection of Catherine Vanderpool