Marcel Duchamp, the outstandingly influential ... He went on to pretend to abandon art and devote the rest of his life to chess, while secretly continuing to make art. While Duchamp’s contemporaries ...

Portrait of Chess Players depicts Duchamp’s brothers, Raymond and Jacques, sitting across from each other playing chess. Marcel painted their profiles repetitively as if he was portraying the ...

On the wintry streets of Manhattan, the foot traffic to see the greatest art exhibition in America had been discouragingly slow. The 1913 “Armory Show” had opened on February 17. It had begun with a ...

Beauty in chess is closer to beauty in poetry ... (9) All quotations from Duchamp are from "The Works of Marcel Duchamp: A Catalog," Marcel Duchamp (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973), unless ...