Research Catalog

Title

The imagery of chess revisited / edited by Larry List ; introduction by Ingrid Schaffner.

Publication

New York : Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum : G. Braziller, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• List, Larry.
• Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum.

Description

xiii, 209 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Subjects

• Chess in art > Exhibitions
• Chess sets > Exhibitions
• Imagery of chess (1944 : New York, N.Y.) > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Oct. 20, 2005-Mar. 5, 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-201) and index.

Contents

Foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction: first match, vantages to gain -- The imagery of chess revisited -- Composing chess -- Remembering The imagery of chess -- Origins of an exhibition -- Chess at Great River -- Look Filipowski, you're in a show with all these famous artists -- The imagery of chess: a son looks back -- Reviewing The imagery of chess -- Chessmen of tomorrow (Chess review, January 1945) -- Levy's gambit (Newsweek, December 25, 1944) -- Presenting The imagery of chess (Josephine Gibbs, Art digest, December 1944) -- Checkmates (Town and country, February 1945) -- Chess sets of the Dada-surrealist era (F. Lanier Graham, from Chess sets, 1968) -- Exhibition checklist, The imagery of chess, Julien Levy Gallery, 1944/45 -- Endnotes -- Illustration credits.

Call Number

JFF 06-378

ISBN

• 0807615552 (Braziller : hardback)
• 0970931034 (Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum : pbk.)

LCCN

2005012460

OCLC

60341491

Title

The imagery of chess revisited / edited by Larry List ; introduction by Ingrid Schaffner.

Imprint

New York : Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum : G. Braziller, c2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-201) and index.

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Added Author

List, Larry.

Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum.

Research Call Number

JFF 06-378