Movimientos en blanco y negro
Subtitle: historia, literatura y arte en el ajedrez argentino
By: coordinación de la muestra, Julián Chomski ; investigación, Juan Sebastián Morgado, Sergio Negri y Julián Chomski ; textos, Gustavo Águila [and eleven others]
Contributors: Biblioteca Nacional (Argentina); Museo del Libro y de la Lengua (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Publisher: Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Language: spa
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9789877280913
Subjects: Chess; Exhibitions; History; Chess in art; Chess players; Biography; Chess in literature; Caricatures and cartoons
Description: The exhibition covers the history of chess in Argentina, along with its transformations and cultural drifts. Exhibited among other valuables is a work by León Ferrari, pieces of ivory that belonged to Juan Manuel de Rosas, the match table for the 1927 world title between Capablanca and Alekhine, an original match played by Marcel Duchamp against the Argentine Fernández Coria, original drawings by Quino, Fontanarrosa, Sabat and others. Also on display are manuscripts of Chess Philosophy by Ezequiel Martínez Estrada and books by Jorge Luis Borges, Rodolfo Walsh, Abelardo Castillo and many other authors who included chess in their literary works, both in prose and in poetry.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and held at the Museo del Libro y de la Lengua, Buenos Aires, September-December 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ajedrez, literatura y arte; title: Ajedrez e historia; title: Ajedrez argentino.