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by iconography that is both rich and mostly unpublished.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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