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Chess Design - Romain Morandi

English
2022-11-28
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• A real mirror of 20th century creation,Chess Design presents an exceptional documentation on 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 2022A real mirror of 20th century creation, Chess Design presents an exceptional documentation on chess games made by artists, designers, architect ... Full description

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• A real mirror of 20th century creation,Chess Design presents an exceptional documentation on 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 2022A 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 Rodtchenko, 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 Damian 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author constitutes a valuable and innovative historian's work, supported by iconography that is both rich and mostly unpublished.

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Author Romain Morandi
Publisher Editions Norma
Release year 2022
Cover type Hardcover
EAN 9782376660668
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