Touching and Imagining: An Introduction to Tactile Art

Jan Svankmajer

ISBN 10: 1780761473 / ISBN 13: 9781780761473

Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2014

Illustrated with over 100 images, the book is organised around many reproductions of Aevankmajer's wondrous tactile art objects, tactile poems, experiments and games. Translator(s): Dalby, Stanley. Num Pages: 224 pages, 90 integrated bw illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 518. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781780761473

Synopsis:

Jan Svankmajer 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 organised around many reproductions of vankmajer 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. vankmajer 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, F.T. Marinetti and Karel Teige.

About the Author: Czech Surrealist, Jan Svankmajer, is best known for his extraordinary animated films, Alice, Faust, Little Otik among them. His work far exceeds the limits of film and, whether film, visual or literary, is connected with the collective activities of the Group of Czech & Slovak Surrealists.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Touching and Imagining: An Introduction to ...
Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New