A masculine ideal: the olympic athlete
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image, masculinity, athlete.Abstract
This text tries to approach to masculine ideal linked to sport during the contemporary period, when Olympic Games are consolidated. Our purpose is to analyze this model and try to define to what extent the prevailing political ideas have influenced it, as we understand sport and its manifestations as part of a social whole that is interrelated and where, in many instances, we can point out that sport and its large demonstrations will be a privileged place to confirm the prevailing values. To do this we will focus particularly in the totalitarian aesthetic, as this has been the one that has used the image of strength in a categorical way in sculpture, painting and architecture.
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