The Bishop, the King, and the Queen – M. Duchamp and Chess Games
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Chess
By Sophie BERNAL.
In 1923, after completing his major work Le Grand Verre, Marcel Duchamp announced he was abandoning art to devote himself to chess. History proved him wrong, but the theme of chess remained omnipresent in his work, starting as a pictorial motif (Chess Game, 1910, The Chess Players, 1911, The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes, 1912...) and then as a trope to understand the world around him. Encoded messages, chess tournaments, giant outdoor games... This conference revisits Duchamp and his contemporaries' interest in this activity between leisure and strategy, a powerful metaphor for class, gender, and power dynamics.
Where does it take place?
Metz Métropole
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parvis des Droits-de-l’Homme CS 90490 57020 Metz Cedex 1
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