A sumptuous compendium of Alexander Calder’s chess works, with ephemera and archival materials.
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Alexander S. C. Rower is the grandson of the artist, founder and president of the Calder Foundation. Since 1987, Rower has documented more than 22,000 works by Calder and established an extensive archive dedicated to all aspects of the artist’s career. He has curated and collaborated on over 100 Calder exhibitions worldwide.
Jed Perl was the art critic for The New Republic for twenty years and a contributing editor to Vogue for a decade. He is currently a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. Among his many books are Calder: The Conquest of Time, Magicians and Charlatans, Antoine’s Alphabet, New Art City, and Paris Without End. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and teaches at the New School in New York.
Susan Braeuer Dam is Director of Research and Publications for the Calder Foundation.
Chess Knightmares is a cycle of nearly four dozen unbridled drawings by Calder of wild chess scenarios, created in 1944. Bawdy female knights, conspiring bishops, and misbehaving queens engage clueless rooks, lewd pawns, and mating kings. They unleash an otherwise regulated game into frenzied conflicts of immorality, with executions and sexual mishaps.
Calder's chess pieces have kicked off all constraints. They move any way they like. They pose, preen and prance across the chess board, giddily engaging i
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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. A sumptuous compendium of Alexander Calder's chess works, with ephemera and archival materials This handsome volume celebrates Alexander Calder's fascination with the game of chess. It comprises two parts: the first presents The Knightmares Portfolio, an approximation of an unrealized publication conceived in 1944 but never published. It comprises 46 chess drawings by Calder inscribed with titles, alternate titles and puns by Duchamp, Mary Reynolds and Calder. The second part of the book features scholarly and experimental texts from Alexander S. C. Rower and Jed Pearl, exploring such topics as Calder's relationship with Marcel Duchamp (who was famously obsessed with chess) and his involvement in the 1944 exhibition The Imagery of Chess at Julien Levy Gallery. Archival documentation, ephemera and reproductions of Calder's chess sets-including photographs of each chess piece and related works on paper-are also featured. A detailed chronology by Susan Brauer Dam completes this rich corpus. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9782851173188
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