Chess Design.
Norma| N° d'inventaire | 26109 |
| Format | 23.5 x 31 |
| Détails | 296 p., publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Belgium, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782376660668 |
A true mirror of 20th-century creation, Chess Design presents exceptional documentation on chess sets created by artists, designers, architects and craftsmen: chessboards themselves, but also artist's drawings, execution plans and archival photographs.
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 major movements that emerged and succeeded one another in the Fine Arts find an echo in these chessboards and the 16 sculptural forms that animate them. These games also reflect the evolution of techniques and materials used during this period: wood, glass, ceramics gave way, from the 1950s, to steel, plastic and composite materials.
At the border between the plastic arts and the decorative arts, these chessboards are created by big names in the art, design and architecture scene – 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 Ghery or Damian Hirst – as well as by anonymous artists.
The synthesis offered by the author constitutes a valuable and innovative work of history, supported by an iconography that is both rich and often unpublished.
A true mirror of 20th-century creation, Chess Design presents exceptional documentation on chess sets created by artists, designers, architects and craftsmen: chessboards themselves, but also artist's drawings, execution plans and archival photographs.
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 major movements that emerged and succeeded one another in the Fine Arts find an echo in these chessboards and the 16 sculptural forms that animate them. These games also reflect the evolution of techniques and materials used during this period: wood, glass, ceramics gave way, from the 1950s, to steel, plastic and composite materials.
At the border between the plastic arts and the decorative arts, these chessboards are created by big names in the art, design and architecture scene – 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 Ghery or Damian Hirst – as well as by anonymous artists.
The synthesis offered by the author constitutes a valuable and innovative work of history, supported by an iconography that is both rich and often unpublished.