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Touching and imagining : an introduction to tactile art / Jan Švankmajer ; English translation Stanley Dalby ; edited by Cathryn Vasseleu.
Fine Arts Library N6831.5.S825 T68 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Švankmajer, Jan, 1934- author.
- Series:
- International library of modern and contemporary art ; 1.
- International library of modern and contemporary art
- Standardized Title:
- Hmat a Imaginate. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Modern.
- Senses and sensation in art.
- Surrealism--Czech Republic.
- Surrealism.
- Touch--In art.
- Touch.
- Czech Republic.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 181 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- English language edition.
- Distribution:
- New York Palgrave Macmmilan.
- Place of Publication:
- London I.B. Tauris, 2013.
- Summary:
- Written after the author stopped directing films and based around his tactile art objects, poems, experiments and games, also includes dialogues with and artworks by other Czech and Slovak surrealist artists.
- Contents:
- Tactilism
- Touch. Introduction ; Between utilitarianism and imagination ; Restorer ; Sources of tactile imagination ; Short anthology of tactile art ; Inside
- Afterword : tactilism reviewed.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1780761465
- 1780761473
- 9781780761466
- 9781780761473
- OCLC:
- 880563551
- Publisher Number:
- 60001907994
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