Check out my new book Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. When the ancient Greeks sculpted the victors of an Olympic event, the goal was to produce not the athlete itself but the perfect, idealized image of the athlete, the body in rhythmos, the discus throw imagined as god-like, eternal. In Myron’s Discus […]
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Roger Federer and Myron’s Discus Thrower
