Duchamp's Pipe by Celia Rabinovitch

Duchamp's Pipe by Celia Rabinovitch

Shortlisted for the 2021 Vine Awards

Art, chess, and an $87,000 pipe frame an inside look at the relationship between Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp and chess Grandmaster George Koltanowski

Spanning three decades, two continents, two world wars, and the international art and chess scenes of the mid twentieth century, Duchamp's Pipe explores the remarkable friendship between art world enfant terrible Marcel Duchamp and blindfold chess champion George Koltanowski. Artist and cultural historian Celia Rabinovitch describes each man's rise to prominence, the chess matches that sparked their relationship, and the recently discovered pipe that Duchamp gave to Koltanowski. This tale of genius and resilience offers fresh insights into the essence of the gift in the bohemian underground. Rabinovitch invites us to discover the chess wizard and a Duchamp slightly off pedestal--and ultimately more human.

CELIA RABINOVITCH combines the artist's experience into a comprehensive grasp of modern art, history, cultural anthropology, and comparative mythology in her work as an artist, writer, and historian. Surrealism and the Sacred: Power, Eros, and the Occult in Modern Art, her previous work, explores the conflict between holy and secular forces in art from antiquity to Surrealism. Her other works look at the intersections of art, history, and spiritual experience. Her vibrant paintings have been exhibited in Canada, Europe, and the United States. Rabinovitch headed the Extension programs in visual arts and design at UC Berkeley and served as Dean of the School of Art at the University of Manitoba in Canada. He received his Ph.D. in religions from McGill University and his MFA in painting from the University of Wisconsin.

She has lectured at the University of Colorado, California College of the Arts, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Stanford University, as well as being an invited speaker at Cornell University, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an artist in residence at Syracuse University and the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Her second book is Duchamp's Pipe.

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ISBN 13	9781623173562
ISBN 10	1623173566
Title	Duchamp's Pipe
Author	Celia Rabinovitch
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	North Atlantic Books,U.S.
Year published	2020-02-25
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.