Chess Design

Chess DesignA real mirror of 20th century creation, Chess Design presents an exceptional documentation on chess games made by artists, designers, architects, and craftsmen: chessboards themselves, but also artists drawings, execution plans and photographs of archives. By presenting nearly 300 of these chessboards chronologically, the author offers a new perspective on the history of art and its evolution. Art Nouveau, Secession, Surrealism, Fluxus, Pop Art, most

A Good Marriage

In this authoritative book

The third edition of this concise survey

This meticulous compilation from TASCHEN’s previous three-volume monograph assembles the most important works from Wright’s extensive

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and sciences

her parents’ marriage is crumbling

and the late ’60s emergence of fantasy psychedelia

deadpanning meditations on the humiliating process of being a person

Moonchild Sanelly

she discovers that she is married to a man she both loves and fundamentally disagrees with—and that her private beliefs increasingly run against her public persona

exemplified by de Kooning and Pollock