Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing

$50.00 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Over 90 artists’ depictions of boxing, from Vito Acconci to Carrie Mae Weems Published with The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, The Church, Sag Harbor, and Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach. This book documents an expansive, traveling group exhibition centered on the sport, psychology, ethos and spectacle of boxing. Artists have often gravitated toward the “sweet science” as a subject, and have investigated the boxer as an icon and metaphor for excellence, physical power, perseverance, achievement and…