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Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Guy Debord is best known as the prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972), as a filmmaker, and as the author of "The Society of the Spectacle" (1967). Alice Becker-Ho (Alice Debord) and Debord’s "A Game of War" originally appeared in 1987, as well as a rudimentary version of the game in a limited edition. In 1991, at(...)
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Alice Becker-Ho & Guy Debord: a game of war
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Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Guy Debord is best known as the prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972), as a filmmaker, and as the author of "The Society of the Spectacle" (1967). Alice Becker-Ho (Alice Debord) and Debord’s "A Game of War" originally appeared in 1987, as well as a rudimentary version of the game in a limited edition. In 1991, at the direction of Guy Debord, all copies of the book were pulped. This carefully produced first edition in English combines book and a game-board and counters allowing readers to play “at home” according to the rules given.
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In recent years, Marcel Dzama (born 1974) has expanded his widely acclaimed drawing practice to incorporate theatrical realizations of his magical, myth-laden cosmology in three-dimensional dioramas and films. This publication provides a kind of sketchbook companion or dossier on the making of his latest film, A Game of Chess . This work draws on the importance of chess(...)
Marcel Dzama : behind every curtain
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In recent years, Marcel Dzama (born 1974) has expanded his widely acclaimed drawing practice to incorporate theatrical realizations of his magical, myth-laden cosmology in three-dimensional dioramas and films. This publication provides a kind of sketchbook companion or dossier on the making of his latest film, A Game of Chess . This work draws on the importance of chess for the early twentieth-century avant-garde (Man Ray, Duchamp, Picabia) and the game's curious overlap with dance, in films and ballets by René Clair and - of especial significance for Dzama - Oskar Schlemmer, whose 1922 Triadic Ballet included puppet-like masked figures performing on a checkered surface. In Dzama's film, characters based on chess pieces, clad in costumes made from papier-mâché, plaster and fiberglass and wearing elaborate masks, dance across a checkered board to engage their opponents in fatal skirmishes. Distinctions between reality and fiction collapse as both costumed and “real-life” characters in the film are killed. The filming and the creation of the costumes for A Game of Chess were carried out in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the influence of local crafts and religious traditions can also be felt throughout this body of work. Published on the occasion of Dzama's sixth solo exhibition at David Zwirner, this artist's book is packed with full-bleed drawings, sculptures, dioramas and film and production stills that give vivid testimony to the craft and thoroughness of his immensely popular art.
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