Brilliant range is a book about Dutch soccer that's not really about Dutch socer. It's more about an enigmatic way of thinking peculiar to a people whose landscape is unrelentingly flat, mostly below sea level, ad who owe their salvation to a boy who plugged a fractured dike with his little inger. If any one thing, Brilliant Orange is about Dutch space and a people whose unique conception of it has led to ome of the most enduring art, the weirdest architecture, and a bizarrely crebral form of soccerâTotal Footballâthat led in 1974 to a World Cup finalsmatch with arch-rival Germany and more recently to a devastating loss againstSpain in 2010. With its intricacy and oddity, it continues to mystify and delght observers around the world. As David Winner wryly observes, it is an expression of the Dutch psyche that has a shaed ancestry with the Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Rembrandt's Th Night Watch, maybe even with Gouda cheese.
Finally here in paperbck, Brilliant Orange reaches out to the reader from an unexpected place andnever lets go.
Categories:
- Politics & Social Sciences
- Politics & Government
- International & World Politics
- European
- International & World Politics
- Politics & Government
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Author : Winner, David
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2008-07-29
Number Of Pages : 304
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 1590200551
ISBN-13 : 9781590200551
Item weight : 0.57 lb
Dimensions : 0.79 in x 5.35 in x 7.87 in
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