Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp

by Aaron Tucker

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771663340
• ISBN13: 9781771663342
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.6"