Touching And Imagining: An Introduction To Tactile Art (international Library Of Modern And Contemporary Art)

Touching And Imagining: An Introduction To Tactile Art (international Library Of Modern And Contemporary Art)
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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 organized around many reproductions of Svankmajer'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. Svankmajer 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 Svankmajer's films, says of the book: 'it is typically Svankmajer: erudite and very consequential. Sometimes also very funny and erotic. Totally unique.Jan vankmajer 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 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, and F.T. Marinetti. Michael Havas, producer of some of vankmajer's films, says of the book: 'it is typically vankmajer: erudite and very consequential. Sometimes also very funny and erotic. Totally unique.' Checked this PDF with Foxit reader (opens without problems)

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