A fine article in The Telegraph.co.uk about artists who happen to be chessplayers (or is that vice versa?) (Cruella DeVille as the black queen by Maurizio Cattelan)
From Duchamp to Damien Hirst, chess has long inspired the big names of the art world.
Alastair Sooke reports
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 09/08/2008
In 1927, Marcel Duchamp, the French-born trail-blazer of conceptual art, married a young heiress called Lydie Sarazin-Lavassor. The honeymoon did not go well. "Duchamp spent most of the week studying chess problems," recalled the artist's close friend Man Ray, "and his bride, in desperate retaliation, got up one night when he was asleep and glued the chess pieces to the board." Bad move. They were divorced three months later.
Full article.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Art and Chess
A fine article in The Telegraph.co.uk about artists who happen to be chessplayers (or is that vice versa?) (Cruella DeVille as the black queen by Maurizio Cattelan)
From Duchamp to Damien Hirst, chess has long inspired the big names of the art world.
Alastair Sooke reports
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 09/08/2008
In 1927, Marcel Duchamp, the French-born trail-blazer of conceptual art, married a young heiress called Lydie Sarazin-Lavassor. The honeymoon did not go well. "Duchamp spent most of the week studying chess problems," recalled the artist's close friend Man Ray, "and his bride, in desperate retaliation, got up one night when he was asleep and glued the chess pieces to the board." Bad move. They were divorced three months later.
Full article.
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