Life sized Chess | Marcel Duchamp / Philippe Halsman, 1956

Philippe Halsman, Marcel Duchamp directs a life-size chess game, 1956

"Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way
the artist is supposed to be, and isn’t, in general."

Marcel Duchamp

Philippe Halsman, Hans Richter vs Marcel Duchamp, Live Chess Match. Connecticut, USA, 1956


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Ανώνυμος είπε...

the problem, of course, isn't the Democratic system,
it's the
living parts which make up the Democratic System.
the next person you pass on the street,
him or
her by
3 or 4 or 30 or 40 million
and you will know
why things remain non-functional
for most of

I wish I had a cure for the chess pieces
we call Humanity. .

we've undergone any number of political

and we all remain
foolish enough to hope
that the one on the way
will cure almost

fellow citizens.
the problem never was the Democratic
System, the problem is

Henry Charles Bukowski / Democracy / 1986


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Jose Capablanca and Herman Steiner, chess masters engage in a game of living chess with Cecil B. DeMille as referee, Los Angeles, nd


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