Picasso and the Chess Player
Title | Picasso and the Chess Player PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Witham |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1611683491 |
The dramatic story of art in the twentieth century
Duchamp's Pipe
Title | Duchamp's Pipe PDF eBook |
Author | Celia Rabinovitch |
Publisher | North Atlantic Books |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2020-02-25 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1623173574 |
Shortlisted for the 2021 Vine Awards Art, chess, and an $87,000 pipe frame an inside look at the relationship between Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp and chess Grandmaster George Koltanowski Spanning three decades, two continents, two world wars, and the international art and chess scenes of the mid twentieth century, Duchamp's Pipe explores the remarkable friendship between art world enfant terrible Marcel Duchamp and blindfold chess champion George Koltanowski. Artist and cultural historian Celia Rabinovitch describes each man's rise to prominence, the chess matches that sparked their relationship, and the recently discovered pipe that Duchamp gave to Koltanowski. This tale of genius and resilience offers fresh insights into the essence of the gift in the bohemian underground. Rabinovitch invites us to discover the chess wizard and a Duchamp slightly off pedestal--and ultimately more human.
Marcel Duchamp, the Art of Chess
Title | Marcel Duchamp, the Art of Chess PDF eBook |
Author | Francis M. Naumann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Chess |
ISBN | 9780980055627 |
Edited by Francis M. Naumann. Text by Francis M. Naumann, Bradley Bailey, Jennifer Shahade.
The Imagery of Chess Revisited
Title | The Imagery of Chess Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Larry List |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Re-evaluating the Art and Chess of Marcel Duchamp
Title | Re-evaluating the Art and Chess of Marcel Duchamp PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Randall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Chess in art |
ISBN |
Eau & Gaz À Tous Les Étages
Title | Eau & Gaz À Tous Les Étages PDF eBook |
Author | Marcel Duchamp |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Spellbound by Marcel
Title | Spellbound by Marcel PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Brandon |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2022-03-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1643138626 |
In 1913 Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase exploded through the American art world. This is the story of how he followed the painting to New York two years later, enchanted the Arensberg salon, and—almost incidentally—changed art forever. In 1915, a group of French artists fled war-torn Europe for New York. In the few months between their arrival—and America’s entry into the war in April 1917—they pushed back the boundaries of the possible, in both life and art. The vortex of this transformation was the apartment at 33 West 67th Street, owned by Walter and Louise Arensberg, where artists and poets met nightly to talk, eat, drink, discuss each others’ work, play chess, plan balls, organise magazines and exhibitions, and fall in and out of love. At the center of all this activity stood the mysterious figure of Marcel Duchamp, always approachable, always unreadable. His exhibit of a urinal, which he called Fountain, briefly shocked the New York art world before falling, like its perpetrator, into obscurity. Many people (of both sexes) were in love with Duchamp. Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood were among them; they were also, briefly, and (for her) life-changingly, in love with each other. Both kept daily diaries, which give an intimate picture of the events of those years. Or rather two pictures—for the views they offer, including of their own love affair, are stunningly divergent. Spellbound by Marcel follows Duchamp, Roché, and Beatrice as they traverse the twentieth century. Roché became the author of Jules and Jim, made into a classic film by François Truffaut. Beatrice became a celebrated ceramicist. Duchamp fell into chess-playing obscurity until, decades later, he became famous for a second time—as Fountain was elected the twentieth century’s most influential artwork.