Marcel Duchamp is famous for his Readymades. His piece, Fountain, a urinal signed “R.Mutt” and submitted to (and rejected by) the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in 1917, for instance, changed the way we define art by removing the pedestal from beneath the “sculpture” and placing it beneath the world entire. What he is less known for, however, is his affinity for chess.
Fleeing the New York art scene, shortly after the 1917 incident, Duchamp headed to Buenos Aires, where he created his own chess set, assisted by a local craftsman.…
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