Chess: east and west, past and present a selection from the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Collection Catalogue by Jessie McNab Dennis and Charles K. Wilkinson. Introd. by Charles K. Wilkinson
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Search this
Subject:
Pfeiffer, Gustavus Adolphus 1872-1953 Art collections Search this
Pfeiffer, Gustavus Adolphus 1872-1953 Art collections Search this
Pfeiffer, Gustavus Adolphus 1872-1953 Art collections Search this
Physical description:
xxxvi pages 117 illustrations (part color) 21 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Expositions
Catalogues d'exposition
Exhibition catalogs
History
Date:
1968
Notes:
"An exhibition ... shown at the Brooklyn Museum from April to October, 1968, sponsored by that museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art"
Contents:
Introduction -- Early pieces -- Indian sets -- Indo-Chinese sets -- Chinese sets -- Japanese sets -- Near Eastern sets -- Military oppositions -- Ideological oppositions -- Fanciful oppositions -- American history -- Conventional and abstract sets
