Abstract

MACCHIAVELLO, Carla. Stop the Match: Politics, Sports, and Art. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2009, n.32, pp.146-157. ISSN 0123-885X.

This essay explores the relations between representation and politics that arose in conjunction with the Davis Cup celebrated in Bastad, Sweden, in 1975, an event that served as a frame for the crossing of contending ideologies and visual images. During the event, the Norwegian artist Kjartan Slettemark produced a poster that encouraged people to stop the tennis matches in protest against the Chilean military regime and which, as part of a larger visual and written polemic, culminated with Chile's defeat in the matches. This essay delves into the ways a sports competition was transformed into a cultural and political event in which concepts such as the nation and ideologies were disputed. Analyzing different discourses and images reproduced in the media, the tensions underlining the sociopolitical ambience of the epoch, which were triggered by the matches, will be traced.

Keywords : Sports; Art; Politics; Spectacle; Nationalism; Representation.

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