Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

Poetry General

Irresponsible Mediums

The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp

by (author) Aaron Tucker

Publisher
Book*hug Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2017
Category
General, Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771663342
    Publish Date
    Oct 2017
    List Price
    $18.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771663359
    Publish Date
    Oct 2017
    List Price
    $14.99

Add it to your shelf

Where to buy it

Description

In 1968, avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp and composer John Cage exhibited Reunion, a chess performance, in Toronto, Canada, where whenever a player moved a piece, it generated a musical note until the game was transformed into a symphony.
Inspired by this performance, Irresponsible Mediums--poet and academic Aaron Tucker's second full-length collection of poems—translates Duchamp's chess games into poems using the ChessBard (an app co-created by Tucker and Jody Miller) and in the process, recreates Duchamp's joyous approach to making art, while also generating startling computer-made poems that blend the analog and digital in strange and surprising combinations.
With an introduction by Jennifer Shahade, two time U.S. Women's Chess Champion.

About the author

Other titles by