Stroke Of Genius. Victor Trumper And The Shot That Changed Cricket
Haigh Gideon
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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
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Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: Reprint
Description: 314 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.
Publishers Description: Today Victor Trumper is, literally, a legend - revered for deeds lost intime, a hallowed name from the golden era from before the moving image began todictate memories and Bradman reset the records. In life, Trumper was Australias first world beater - at his peak just after Federation, he was not just a cricketer but an artist of the bat, the genius of a new era, a symbol of what Australia could be. Crowds flocked to his club matches, English supporters cheered him on in Tests, and at his early funeral in 1915 - even amidst the grief of war - mourners choked the streets of Sydney. Trumper lives on, not just as the name of a stand at the SCG, or a park near his former home ground. He lives in an image that captures him mid-stroke: a daring players graceful advance into the unknown, alive with intent and controlled abandon. Reproduced countless times in cricket books and pavilions around the world, it conjures an era, an attitude - crickets first imaginings of itself - and encapsulates the timeless beauty of sport like none other. If Trumper is a legend, George Beldams Jumping Out has become an icon. But that image has almost paradoxically obscured the story of its subject. Man and photograph have entranced Gideon Haigh since childhood, and in Stroke of Geniushe explores both the real Victor Trumper and the process of his iconography. Together they inspired a profound moral and aesthetic revaluation of the game, and changed the way we think about cricket, art and Australia. In this inventive, fresh and compelling work of history, Haigh reveals how Trumper, and Beldams incarnation of his brilliance, are at the intersection of sport and art, history and timelessness, reality and myth.
ISBN: 9781926428734
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