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The Imagery of Chess Revisited.


The Imagery of Chess Revisited

Larry List, Editor

George Braziller

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At once an art history title and a special source of interest to chess players This is a list of chess players. Chess players
The people in this list are men and women who are primarily known as chess players, and their biographies are presented in the Wikipedia.
, THE IMAGERY OF CHESS REVISITED is an outstanding survey of the 1944-45 exhibition of the same name held in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
, which hosted participants from famous European expatriates and American modernists alike. All contributed chess sets for the project and exhibition, and many produced other chess-related art, from paintings to photos. The IMAGERY OF CHESS REVISITED project grew out of a project to create an exact replica of Isamu Noguchi's 'lost' red and green plastic chess set designed for the original exhibition, and holds numerous previously unpublished works and images which will prove of special interest to collectors, artists and gamers alike.
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