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Touching and Imagining: An Introduction to Tactile Art (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art Book 1) by Jan 1934- author Svankmajer; Stanley translator Dalby; Cathryn 1957- editor Vasseleu is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Jan Švankmajer wrote this remarkable book on tactile art when he stopped directing films after censorship by the Czechoslovakian government and experimented intensively with tactile phenomena and the creative imagination. Illustrated with over 100 images, the book is organized around many reproductions of Švankmajer's wondrous tactile art objects, tactile poems, experiments and games. It also includes dialogues with, and artworks by, other collaborating artists from the Group of Czech and Slovak Surrealists. Švankmajer also gathers together as contributors such notable exponents of tactual experience as Edgar Allen Poe, Guillaume Apollinaire, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Meret Oppenheim, Ay-O, and F.T. Marinetti. Michael Havas, producer of some of Švankmajer's films, says of the book: 'it is typically Švankmajer: erudite and very consequential. Sometimes also very funny and erotic. Totally unique.'

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Author
Jan 1934- author Svankmajer; Stanley translator Dalby; Cathryn 1957- editor Vasseleu
Publisher
I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited; I.B. Tauris
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9781780761466
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Art, Arts

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