Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot That Changed Cricket by Gideon Haigh
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Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot That Changed Cricket by Gideon Haigh

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ISBN: 9780143785965
Shelf No: 3682
Author: Gideon Haigh
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2017
Format: Paperback
Volume: 1
Pages: 314 pages
Book Type: SECONDHAND
Cost: 3.00
Period: 20th Century
Private Notes: C4

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minimal edgewear.

Today Victor Trumper is, literally, a legend – revered for deeds lost in time, a hallowed name from the golden era from before the moving image began to dictate memories and Bradman reset the records.

In life, Trumper was Australia’s first world-beater – at his peak just after Federation, he was not just a cricketer but an artist of the bat, the genius of a new era, a symbol of what Australia could be. Crowds flocked to his club matches, English supporters cheered him on in Tests, and at his early funeral in 1915 – even amidst the grief of war – mourners choked the streets of Sydney.

Trumper lives on, not just as the name of a stand at the SCG, or a park near his former home ground. He lives in an image that captures him mid-stroke: a daring player’s graceful advance into the unknown, alive with intent and controlled abandon. Reproduced countless times in cricket books and pavilions around the world, it conjures an era, an attitude – cricket’s first imaginings of itself – and encapsulates the timeless beauty of sport like none other.

If Trumper is a legend, George Beldam’s ‘Jumping Out’ has become an icon.

But that image has almost paradoxically obscured the story of its subject. Man and photograph have entranced Gideon Haigh since childhood, and in Stroke of Genius he explores both the real Victor Trumper and the process of his iconography. Together they inspired a profound moral and aesthetic revaluation of the game and changed the way we think about cricket, art and Australia. In this inventive, fresh and compelling work of history, Haigh reveals how Trumper, and Beldam’s incarnation of his brilliance, are at the intersection of sport and art, history and timelessness, reality and myth. (front flap)

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