This book is a significant new contribution to understanding both sports and the arts, not just in their separate contexts, but also in amalgam. It represents a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students of Sports, Visual Art, Literature, History, Sociology and Social Theory, and Cultural Studies.

1. Investigating the interrelationships between sport and the arts 2. The aesthetics of sport and the arts: competing and complementary 3. New directions in the arts and sport? Critiquing national strategies 4. Participant experience in art- sport: Additive? Interactive? Transformative? 5. Subjectivity and temporality in literary narratives about sports 6. The art and artifice of early sports photography 7. The art of face- saving and culture- changing: sculpting Chinese football's past, present and future 8. An exploration of running as metaphor, methodology, material through the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale #r3fest 2016 9. Contemporary physical activities: the aesthetic justification 10. The crusade against 'Foreigners': the Romanian national football team through the eyes of a modernist writer 11. UrbanDig Project: sport practices and artistic interventions for co-creating urban space