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Chess Design
397,00 lei

Categorii: Diverse

Limba: Engleza

Data publicării: 2022

Editura: Editions Norma

Tip copertă: Hardcover

Nr Pag: 304

ISBN: 9782376660668

Dimensiuni: l: 23cm | H: 30.5cm | 3.6cm | 1982g

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Chess Design
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  • A real mirror of 20th century creation, Chess Design presents an exceptional documentation of chess games made by artists, designers, architects, and craftsmen
  • Published to accompany an exhibition at the A. Guillemain & R. Morandi Gallery in Paris, in November 2022
  • Text in English and French

A real mirror of 20th century creation, Chess Design presents an exceptional documentation on chess games made by artists, designers, architects, and craftsmen: chessboards themselves, but also artist's drawings, execution plans and photographs of archives.

By presenting nearly 300 of these chessboards chronologically, the author offers a new perspective on the history of art and its evolution. Art Nouveau, Secession, Surrealism, Fluxus, Pop Art, most of the great movements that are born and follow one another in the Fine Arts find an echo with these chessboards and the 16 pieces that animate them. These chess games also reflect the evolution of techniques and materials used during this period: wood, glass, ceramics will give way, from the 1950s, to steel, plastic and composite materials.

At the border between the plastic arts and the decorative arts, these chessboards are made by big names in the art scene, design or architecture – Alexandre Rodchenko, Jean-Michel Frank, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, or, more recently, Yoko Ono, Robert Filliou, Yayo Kusama, Victor Vasarely, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry or Damien Hirst – as by anonymous people. The synthesis offered by the author constitutes a valuable and innovative historian's work, supported by iconography that is both rich and mostly unpublished.

Text in English and French

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