PICASSO AND THE CHESS PLAYER / PABLO PICASSO, MARCEL DUCHAMP, AND THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF MODERN

Picasso and the Chess Player is the story of how Picasso and Duchamp came to define the epochal debate between modern and conceptual arta drama that features a Whos Who of twentieth-century art and culture, including Henri Matisse, Gertrude Stein, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, and Andy Warhol. In telling the story, Larry Witham weaves two great art biographies into one tumultuous century.