Touching and imagining : an introduction to tactile art

Author(s)

• Švankmajer, Jan
• Dalby, Stanley
• Vasseleu, Cathryn

Bibliographic Information

Touching and imagining : an introduction to tactile art

Jan Švankmajer ; English translation by Stanley Dalby ; edited by Cathryn Vasseleu

I.B. Tauris, 2014

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-178) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Translator's Note Editor's Preface Introduction to the English Language Edition Tactilism Touch 1. Introduction 2. Between Utilitarianism and Imagination 3. Restorer 4. Sources of Tactile Imagination 5. Short Anthology of Tactile Art 6. Inside Afterword: Tactilism Reviewed Notes Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BB15374934
• ISBN:
  • 9781780761466
  • 9781780761473
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: cze
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 181 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 709.04
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Art, Modern