Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding - Rilegato

Chapman, David L.

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ISBN 10: 0252020332 ISBN 13: 9780252020339

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 1994

Riassunto

Before Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Reeves, or Charles Atlas, there was German-born Eugen Sandow (1867-1925), a muscular vaudeville strongman who used his good looks, intelligence, and business savvy to forge a fitness empire. 

David L. Chapman tells the story of the immensely popular showman who emphasized physique display rather than lifting prowess. But he also looks at Sandow's success off-stage, where the entertainer helped found the fitness movement by establishing a worldwide chain of gyms, publishing a popular magazine, selling exercise equipment, and pioneering the use of food supplements. Chapman explains physical culture's popularity in terms of its wider social implications while delving into how Sandow, by making exercise fashionable, ushered in the fitness craze that continues today. 

This new edition has been revised and enlarged with an afterword that includes unpublished information, new photographs of Sandow and his contemporaries, and an updated index.

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Informazioni sull?autore

David L. Chapman is the author of Universal Hunks: A Pictorial History of Muscular Men around the World, 1895-1975and coauthor of American Hunks: The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860-1970.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0252020332
• ISBN 13: 9780252020339
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 264
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile