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.”
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
Also:
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,
multiply
him or
her by
3 or 4 or 30 or 40 million
and you will know
immediately
why things remain non-functional
for most of
us.
I wish I had a cure for the chess pieces
we call Humanity. .
we've undergone any number of political
cures
and we all remain
foolish enough to hope
that the one on the way
NOW
will cure almost
everything.
fellow citizens.
the problem never was the Democratic
System, the problem is
you.
Henry Charles Bukowski / Democracy / 1986
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http://thereminsoul.tumblr.com/post/52580948540/chagalov-jose-capablanca-and-herman-steiner
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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