- Foreword
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Introduction: first match, vantages to gain
- The imagery of chess revisited
- Composing chess
- Remembering The imagery of chess
- Origins of an exhibition
- Chess at Great River
- Look Filipowski, you're in a show with all these famous artists
- The imagery of chess: a son looks back
- Reviewing The imagery of chess
- Chessmen of tomorrow (Chess review, January 1945)
- Levy's gambit (Newsweek, December 25, 1944)
- Presenting The imagery of chess (Josephine Gibbs, Art digest, December 1944)
- Checkmates (Town and country, February 1945)
- Chess sets of the Dada-surrealist era (F. Lanier Graham, from Chess sets, 1968)
- Exhibition checklist, The imagery of chess, Julien Levy Gallery, 1944/45
- Endnotes
- Illustration credits.
Celebrates the extraordinary 1944-45 exhibition 'The Imagery of Chess'. A virtual 'who's-who' of artists such as Man Ray and Isamu Noguchi were asked to redesign the standard chess set or otherwise explore chess imagery and its symbolism. The results are catalogued here.
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