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Touching and imagining : an introduction to tactile art / Jan Švankmajer ; English translation by Stanley Dalby ; edited by Cathryn Vasseleu.

By: Contributor(s): Series: International library of modern and contemporary art ; 1.Publisher: London : I.B. Tauris, 2014Description: xx, 181 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781780761466
  • 1780761465
  • 1780761473
  • 9781780761473
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Contents:
Tactilism -- Touch. Introduction ; Between utilitarianism and imagination ; Restorer ; Sources of tactile imagination ; Short anthology of tactile art ; Inside -- Afterword : tactilism reviewed.
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.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Yellow 709.04063 SVA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12751

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

Tactilism -- Touch. Introduction ; Between utilitarianism and imagination ; Restorer ; Sources of tactile imagination ; Short anthology of tactile art ; Inside -- Afterword : tactilism reviewed.

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.