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Duchamp's pipe, a chess romance : Marcel Duchamp & George Koltanowski, Celia Rabinovitch ; with a foreword by Ihor Holubizky, and contributions by Nicole Lastreto, Kerry Hamilton Lawless, and Irwin Lipnowksi

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index

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Duchamp's pipe

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Celia Rabinovitch ; with a foreword by Ihor Holubizky, and contributions by Nicole Lastreto, Kerry Hamilton Lawless, and Irwin Lipnowksi

a chess romance : Marcel Duchamp & George Koltanowski

"Art, chess, and an $87,000 pipe frame an inside look at the relationship between famed blindfold grandmaster George Koltanowski and dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp"--, Provided by publisher

Part I. A smoking pipe -- The gift -- A fairy tale for grown-ups -- Duchamp and Brâncuşi: The pure pipe -- Part II. A chess romance -- The players at the art of chess -- Chess painting, chess playing -- Transatlantic chess from Paris to New York -- Diamonds and Chess -- Duchamp and Koltanowski meet: Le Cygne -- Koltanowski rising and the creation of the World Chess Federation, 1924 -- Epiphanies in chess and art -- The match of 1929 -- Part III. A beautiful game -- A beautiful game -- Translucent passages: reading between the lines -- Touring chess under fascism's threat -- Escaping France -- Ethnological excursions: into a dark mood -- Pocketing chess: "Chess for All" -- The Imagery of Chess, 1944-1945 -- Perhaps the pipe, even -- Part IV. Objects and the spirits who made them -- Rituals of smoking and breathing -- The form of things hidden: the inframince -- Another romance -- The excess of imagination -- An amiable conjurer -- Endgame: a little smoke was seen -- The exchange redeemed.