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From: Tamara Jhashi <[email protected]>
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From: Margaret Samu <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:12 PM
Subject: Question about Rodchenko's chess set
To: SHERA Art and Architecture <[email protected]>
Cc: Larry List <[email protected]>


A colleague recently asked me to send this question to the SHERA listserv.
If anyone can offer suggestions or advice, please contact Larry List
directly: [email protected]

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My name is Larry List. I am an independent curator and writer. I have been
focusing on chess sets by 20th century avant garde artists as expressions
of design which give clues to differing Modernist definitions of culture. I
have curated exhibitions on chess and Surrealism, contemporary artists'
chess-related art, and surveys of chess designs across eras and cultures
from 700 CE to the present.

I realize that the literature on Rodchenko is extensive and have questions
that perhaps one of you could answer or at least suggest the likeliest
places to look for answers.

In the 2009 Tate* Rodchenko & Popova* catalog, there is a reproduction of a
drawing/design Rodchenko made for the chess table for the USSR Workers Club
exhibited at the Exposition International de Arts Decoratif et Industriels
Modernes, Paris, 1925.

I then read in an article "Rodchenko:A Design for Life" by Roseann Blamey
published in *The Chess Collector  *Vol XXI No. 3 2013, that a replica of
the chess table *and chess set** *were on permanent exhibit at the Marx
Library, in London. I have found a variety of blurry photos of the table,
each with a different chess set on it, but no written documentation, nor
drawings, nor notes yet clearly *indicating **the design of a specific
chess set* *by Rodchenko* that accompanied the table.

In your studies, have any of you encountered any clear documentation of a
Rodchenko chess set design? I may be making a rare (for me) trip to Europe
in late September and would plan to visit London to measure and document
the chess table and chess set at the Marx Library, if it was a actual
replica of a Rodchenko design. If it was not, I would re-direct my scarce
travel time and funds to pursue other research goals.

Any information you might share would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely yours,
Larry List
Independent Scholar, New York
[email protected]






-- 
Tamara Jhashi, Ph.D.
American Council on Education Fellow 2013-2014
Associate Professor of Art History
Oakland University

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