"The Imagery of Chess Revisited" recovers a celebrated and
extraordinary moment in art history: the 1944-45 exhibition "The
Imagery of Chess," held at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York
City. The exhibit was a legend in its own time and has been
considered a singular event in the history of art exhibitions ever
since. The show's organizers--the influential art dealer Julien
Levy, the Surrealist painter Max Ernst, and Dada leader Marcel
Duchamp, himself a serious chess player--invited a virtual "who's
who" of artists and members of the cultural avant-garde to redesign
the standard chess set or otherwise explore chess imagery and its
symbolism in bold new ways. Participants included famous European
expatriates and soon-to-be famous American modernists: Andre
Breton, Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Ernst, Man Ray, Isamu Noguchi,
and Yves Tanguy are among those who contributed chess sets; John
Cage and Vittorio Rieti created original musical scores; and
Dorothea Tanning, Arshile Gorky, David Hare, Man Ray, Matta, Robert
Motherwell, and others produced pivotal chess-related paintings,
sculptures, and photographic works.
Featuring new color photographs as well as rarely seen archival
images, recollections by participants and their descendants, and
period reviews, "The Imagery of Chess Revisited" includes
previously unpublished works. Among them are Andre Breton and
Nicolas Calas's wine-glass chess set and Alexander Calder's chess
set made of found materials, in addition to thirty-five of Calder's
chess-related drawings. An essay by Larry List explores the chess
designs as visual objects and pivotal creations in the context of
participating artists' lives and work. Lowell Cross and Paul
B.Franklin examine the two musical scores included in the show; and
Ingrid Schaffner provides an introduction to the art-world milieu
in which "The Imagery of Chess" took place. 50 illustrations in
color, 80 in black and white.
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