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Avec plus de trois cents jeux d'échecs réalisés par des artistes, designers, architectes et artisans, cet ouvrage à la documentation riche et inédite, composée de dessins, de plans d'exécution, de photographies d'époque, offre une nouvelle vision de l'histoire de l'art et de son évolution au cours du XXe siècle.
Art nouveau, surréalisme, Fluxus, Pop Art, la plupart des grands mouvements artistiques trouvent un écho dans ces échiquiers signés par de grands noms, tels Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Zaha Hadid, Damien Hirst, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Man Ray, Alexandre Rodtchenko ou Victor Vasarely.
This book, with its rich and previously unpublished documentation, is composed of drawings, execution plans, and archive photographs of more than three hundred chess sets created by artists, designers, architects, and craftspeople, and offers a new perspective on the evolution of art during the 20th century.
Most of the great artistic movements - Art Nouveau, Surrealism, Fluxus or Pop Art - find expression in these chess sets signed by notable artists such as Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Zaha Hadid, Damien Hirst, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Man Ray, Alexander Rodchenko, or Victor Vasarely.