Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess
New York: Readymade Press, 2009.
Hardcover.
The first English language study exploring the relationship between Marcel Duchamp's activities as a chess player and his work as an artist. Francis Naumann shows that the chronology of Duchamp's life as analogous to the phases of a chess game - from opening to middle game, to endgame. Bradley Bailey demonstrates how Duchamp's interest in chess is reflected in specific works. Jennifer Shahade has selected and analyzed fifteen of Duchamp's chess games illustrated by Jean Sabrier in a font that replicates Duchamp's Design for Chessmen (1918).
Item #902017ISBN: 9780980055627
7 x 9-3/8", black cloth with red print, iii, 133pp, illustrated.
Crimping to head of spine, else very fine in moderately rubbed dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $175.00