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Author Švankmajer, Jan, 1934- author.

Title Touching and imagining : an introduction to tactile art / Jan Švankmajer ; English translation by Stanley Dalby ; edited by Cathryn Vasseleu
Published London : I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2014
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 181 pages)
Series International library of modern and contemporary art ; 1
International library of modern and contemporary art ; 1.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178) and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 29, 2019)
Subject Surrealism -- Czech Republic
Touch -- In art
Senses and sensation in art.
Art, Modern.
ART -- History -- General.
Art, Modern
Senses and sensation in art
Surrealism
Touch
Czech Republic
Genre/Form Art
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857735300
0857735306
9780857723499
0857723499
1306974372
9781306974370