Touching and Imagining - An Introduction to Tactile Art

Jan Svankmajer wrote this remarkable book on tactile art when he stopped directing films and experimented intensively with tactile art after repeated censorship by the communist governmnent of Czechoslovakia. Illustrated with over 100 imges, this book is organised around many reproductions of Svanmajker's wondrous tactile art objects, tactile poems, experiments and games. It 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 tactical experience as Edgar Allan Poe, Guillaume Appollinaire, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Meret Oppenheim, Edith Clifford Williams, Ay-O, Valie Export, F.T. Marinetti and Karel Teige.

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• Authors: Jan Svankmajer, Jan Vankmajer
• Assisted by: Cathryn Vasseleu (Editor), Cathryn Vasseleu (Introduction), Vasseleu Cathryn (Introduction), Stanley Dalby (Translation), Dalby Stanley (Translation)
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2014
• EAN: 9781780761473
• ISBN: 978-1-78076-147-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 174 mm x 245 mm x 14 mm
• Series: International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art; International Library of Moder; International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art; International Library of Moder
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), ART / History / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -