Boxing is the top popular sport in Cuba and part of its cultural
identity. The martial arts, often represented as warlike in form,
acquire here an unexpected elegance, speed and technical
perfection. This publication reflects the Cuban love of sport, from
youth work in the back yards of Havana to the preparations for the
Olympic Games. At the same time it tells the story of this
fascinating world sport. Cuba's pride in its boxers and its sports
tradition remains unbroken. Boxing schools and national boxing
idols happily granted the photographer Katharina Alt access to
their training facilities and private homes in order to record life
in and around the sport and the contests. The photos provide an
impressive record of the arduous preparations for a fight and
continue until the boxers are saved by the gong in the final round.
The text by author and journalist Michael Schleicher is divided
into twelve rounds and shows how the sport has changed since
Antiquity. Motifs, aesthetics and boxing language occur today in
art and culture and are thus an omnipresent witness to the fact
that "Boxing is life itself", according to Joyce Carol Oates.
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