Les grandes mémoires

Alfred Binet (1857-1911) was a famous psychologist whose research had far-reaching on the psychology of intelligence. In 1905, the famous Binet-Simon test, which proposed a metric scale of intelligence based on age was at the origin of our current IQ test. In the text published in 1893, Binet Records its observations in a fun way, on what had fascinated him: the chess games played simultaneously conducted blind (sometimes up to sixteen) by the same player. His view of the links between perception and knowledge has allowed a reinterpretation of the artistic avant-garde representation systems in the early twentieth century by helping to reconsider the mechanisms of the invention in the creative process.

Such is the approach angle that Pascal Rousseau, professor of art history at Paris 1, specialist in historical vanguards, adopts in his afterword, relying on the case of Marcel Duchamp who, with the thirteen, began to play chess and painting. The plan of the board and of the table then merge.

Artist Benoît Maire The illustrations are based here in chess to pervert the laws and plays all the rule and transgression.

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