Author: Dafoe, Frances ; Dick Button
Title: Figure Skating and the Arts : Eight Centuries of Sport and Inspiration
Description: Atglen, Pennsylvania, Schiffer Publishing, 2011. Hardcover. Black, color pictorial printed boards and matching DJ. 192 pp. Introduction by Dick Button. "The book highlights eight centuries of ice skating as well as the sport's impact 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, the book is a veritable history of skating." - book jacket. NF .

Keywords: American Art ; Dafoe, Frances, Dick Button, Ice Skating History ; ;


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