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Touching and imagining : an introduction to tactile art

Title
Touching and imagining : an introduction to tactile art / Jan Švankmajer ; Stanley Dalby, translator ; Cathryn Vasseleu, editor.
Author
Švankmajer, Jan, 1934-
Publication
London : I.B. Tauris, 2014.

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Additional Authors
  • Dalby, Stanley
  • Vasseleu, Cathryn, 1957-
Description
xxii, 181 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
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.
Series Statement
International library of modern and contemporary art ; 1
Uniform Title
International library of modern and contemporary art ; 1.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • works of art.
  • Art
  • Art.
  • Œuvres d'art.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-178) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Between utilitarianism and imagination -- Restorer -- Sources of tactile imagination -- Short anthology of tactile art -- Inside -- Afterword : tactilism reviewed.
ISBN
  • 9781780761466
  • 1780761465
  • 1780761473
  • 9781780761473
OCLC
  • ocn857110059
  • 857110059
  • SCSB-1782210
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library