A sort of Index to chess in art posts on Lost on Time.
For chess in art posts in an earlier incarnation see here
2016
25 March Hackney Seen in New York - Tom Hackney's upcoming shows in the States
24 June Hackey Seen in St. Louis etc - Tom Hackney again, plus conceptual art in London
26 August Chess in Art: Richier Revisited - Germaine Richier's great chess set at Tate Modern
2 September Chess in Art: Miss Tanning's Appendix - She who played chess with Max Ernst
9 September Chess in Art: RA Afterthought - Chess in architecture
25 November Wot a Lot - David Bowie flogs a chess set
23 December Chess in Art: Tinkling the Ivories - Hot chess at the Carvery
2017
6 January Chess in Art; Chess Board Cubism - Cubes and squares
13 January Chess in Art: Again, With A Footnote - John Berger RIP
8 September Hackney Hits a Hundred - An update on Tom Hackney's Duchamp project
2019
1 March Chess in Art Revisits 1. John Ruskin - Another look occasioned by a current exhibition
8 March Chess in Art Revisits 2. Tom Hackney - Catching up with Tom catching up with Marcel
15 March Chess in Art Revisits 3. Dorothea Tanning - To see her fine retrospective at Tate Modern
Monday, 1 February 2016
Lost in History
A sort of Index to Lost on Time history posts:
For chess history in an earlier incarnation see here.
2016
8 April The Baby and The Bike - An addition to the story of Edwardian player E.M.Jellie (begun here, and continued here).
6 May et seq. A seven part series on Louisa Matilda Fagan, maybe the strongest female player in late Victorian England: including her chess, her family, and her politics - 1. Waltzing Matilda; 2: Mrs Fagan's Game; 3: Mrs Fagan's Game Resumed; 4: Mrs Fagan's Family 5: Mrs Fagan's Politics; 6: Another Mrs Fagan...and Her Politics; 7...And the Final "Mrs Fagan"
16 September A French Connection - Young French aristos caught playing chess in Richmond.
30 September & 14 October Played on Squares (Bloomsbury and Chess) 8 - and 9, on E.M. Forster - a continuation of the series begun in 2015 here.
16 December The Bird Has Landed - an appreciation of Hans Renette's fine biog of Henry Bird.
2017
27 January et seq. A series on Herbert Jacobs, described in his obituary in 1950 as, in his time, one of the strongest players in the country - 1. Beginning in Croydon; 2. Brixton, Benedict and Bar; 3.City Champ; 4. Congress Man; 5. A Load of Old Cablers; 6.Engaging Agnes; 7. Congress Man Replayed; 8. Madame Larkcom; 9. Jacobs Crackers; 10. Votes for Women!; 11. Votes for Jacobs!; 12. Intermission Riff; 13 Barrister; 14. Still at the Bar; 15. Down the Line; 16. Finale
28 April. Brixton Byways 2½: Peyers You Went - a reprise on the de Peyer brothers of the ancient Endeavour Chess Club of North Brixton, who were first described here.
22 September. Les Chesseurs Britanniques de Paris: Part 7. Addendum bis - a further episode* documenting the short lived British Chess Club of Paris active in the decade before WW2; beginning here.
6 October et seq. A further perambulatory sequence in the series started back here. This time Streatham Strolls West: Outward; then Backtrack; and Inward
1 December. *And yet another episode: Les Chesseurs....Part 8 Inital Confusion, Final Conclusion?
For chess history in an earlier incarnation see here.
2016
8 April The Baby and The Bike - An addition to the story of Edwardian player E.M.Jellie (begun here, and continued here).
6 May et seq. A seven part series on Louisa Matilda Fagan, maybe the strongest female player in late Victorian England: including her chess, her family, and her politics - 1. Waltzing Matilda; 2: Mrs Fagan's Game; 3: Mrs Fagan's Game Resumed; 4: Mrs Fagan's Family 5: Mrs Fagan's Politics; 6: Another Mrs Fagan...and Her Politics; 7...And the Final "Mrs Fagan"
16 September A French Connection - Young French aristos caught playing chess in Richmond.
30 September & 14 October Played on Squares (Bloomsbury and Chess) 8 - and 9, on E.M. Forster - a continuation of the series begun in 2015 here.
16 December The Bird Has Landed - an appreciation of Hans Renette's fine biog of Henry Bird.
2017
27 January et seq. A series on Herbert Jacobs, described in his obituary in 1950 as, in his time, one of the strongest players in the country - 1. Beginning in Croydon; 2. Brixton, Benedict and Bar; 3.City Champ; 4. Congress Man; 5. A Load of Old Cablers; 6.Engaging Agnes; 7. Congress Man Replayed; 8. Madame Larkcom; 9. Jacobs Crackers; 10. Votes for Women!; 11. Votes for Jacobs!; 12. Intermission Riff; 13 Barrister; 14. Still at the Bar; 15. Down the Line; 16. Finale
28 April. Brixton Byways 2½: Peyers You Went - a reprise on the de Peyer brothers of the ancient Endeavour Chess Club of North Brixton, who were first described here.
22 September. Les Chesseurs Britanniques de Paris: Part 7. Addendum bis - a further episode* documenting the short lived British Chess Club of Paris active in the decade before WW2; beginning here.
6 October et seq. A further perambulatory sequence in the series started back here. This time Streatham Strolls West: Outward; then Backtrack; and Inward
1 December. *And yet another episode: Les Chesseurs....Part 8 Inital Confusion, Final Conclusion?
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