01.08.2010
Chess Match (6)
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem… I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
— Marcel Duchamp (shown here sitting in front of a chess set designed by Max Ernst)
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Sixth in an occasional series.
Joshua Glenn is a Boston, Mass.-based writer, editor, and cultural semiotics analyst. He's cofounder of HiLobrow (named by TIME one of the Best Blogs of 2010), Significant Objects, and Semionaut. He's been a columnist for the Boston Globe, the Observer (London), Feed.com, and the Idler; he's toiled as a magazine, website, and newspaper editor; and he's authored and edited Taking Things Seriously (2007) and The Idler's Glossary (2008). In the '90s he published the seminal intellectual/pop culture zine Hermenaut.
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I like those funny little creatures! But I kind of want to see them peeking out from here and there, like on his bookshelves or on top of his chair, rather than confined to their squares calculating their inevitable Waterloos.
You know, just take that first step off the board and *keep *going . . .