In 1932, Marcel Duchamp published "Opposition and Sister Squares Are Reconciled," a collaboration with chess champion Vitaly Halberstadt on endgames in chess. Ernst Strouhal's illustrated study approaches this volume as an "almost utopian treatise on chess endgames" and as a trilingual artist's book[...]

One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was a master of self-invention who carefully regulated the image he projected through self-portraiture and through his collaboration with those who portrayed him. During his long career, Duchamp recast accepted [...]