Bullfighting - 9780765806574

BullfightingArt, Technique and Spanish Society\nAuthor(s): John McCormick\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United Kingdom\nImprint: Transaction Publishers\nISBN-13: 9780765806574, 978-0765806574\nSynopsis\nErnest Hemingway, best-known to layman and aficionado alike, in his fiction described bullfighting, or toreo, as a cross between romantic risk and a drunken party, or as an elaborate substitute for war, ending in wounds or death. Although his descriptions of the \""beauty\""in toreo are lyrical, they are short on imaginative creation of how such beauty, through techniques and discipline, comes about. Hemingway may have sculpted a personal mystique of toreo but, in the opinion of some, he ignored or slighted the full, unique nature of the subject.\n\nIn Bullfighting: Art, Technique, and Spanish Society John McCormick sorts through the complexities of toreo, to suggest the aesthetic, social, and moral dimensions of an art that is geographically limited, but univ.