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Jan Švankmajer : dimensions of dialogue / between film and fine art : [exhibition, Prague, City Gallery, Stone Bell House, October 26, 2012-February 3, 2013, and the Olomouc Museum of Art - Museum of Modern Art, May 16-September 15, 2013.

Švankmajer, Jan

Edité par Arbor Vitae

[...]"The present book is the most comprehensive monograph on Jan Švankmajer so far, it describes with greater depth and precision aspects of his life and work and it invites the reader to dive into a wonderfully rich and coherent, distinctive and unique universe. The essays emphasise and illuminate characteristic attributes of Švankmajer’s work – puppet theatre, Mannerism, Surrealism, collaboration with Eva Švankmajerová, his own film idiom, and also comparatively little known elements such as obsessional passion for collecting, first formative years and experiences; i.e. the book deals with the periods that have not yet been much studied and which make easier to understand Švankmajer’s later creative evolution. The essays are alternated with chronologically conceived biographical study which introduces and comments individual works (theatre and puppet theatre productions, scenography, drawings, assemblages, films, objects, poems), draws attention to the various artistic and intellectual events, key meetings, influences, obsessions, ideas and visions, attitudes that may have contributed to the formation of the artist’s unique and specific imagination". (source : éditeur)

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