This book with its rich and unpublished documentation, is composed of drawings, execution plans, and period photographs of more than three hundred chess sets created by artists, designers,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 Rodchenko, Alexander Calder, Victor Vasarely, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Zaha Hadid, or Damien Hirst.
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