The imagery of chess
By David Astle
‘Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.’
- Marcel Duchamp
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In response to Marcel Duchamp's ‘The Imagery of Chess' 1944.
See the artwork that inspired this poem in the flesh, along with more than 100 of Marcel Duchamp’s world-renowned pieces, in ‘The Essential Duchamp’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 April – 11 August 2019.