Touching and Imagining
豆瓣
An Introduction to Tactile Art
Jan Svankmajer 译者: Stanley Dalby
简介
Jan Aevankmajer wrote this remarkable book on tactile art when he stopped directing films after censorship by the Czechoslovakian government and experimented intensively with tactile phenomena and the creative imagination. Illustrated with over 100 images, the book is organised around many reproductions of Aevankmajer's wondrous tactile art objects, tactile poems, experiments and games. It also includes dialogues with, and artworks by, other collaborating artists from the Group of Czech and Slovak Surrealists. Aevankmajer also gathers together as contributors such notable exponents of tactual experience as Edgar Allen Poe, Guillaume Apollinaire, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Meret Oppenheim, Ay-O, and F.T. Marinetti. Michael Havas, producer of some of Aevankmajer's films, says of the book: 'it is typically Aevankmajer: erudite and very consequential. Sometimes also very funny and erotic. Totally unique.'
contents
INTRODUCTION
BETWEEN UTILITARIANISM AND IMAGINATION
Tactile utilitarian objects; tactile utilitarian activities
Experiments in expanding the utilitarian functions of touch
Initial experiences with tactile stimulative material
A visit
A game for one year
Clifford Williams game
RESTORER
Experiment in tactile interpretation
Purpose of the experiment
Rules of the game
Restorer experiment:
Identifying phase of the experiment
Imaginative phase of the experiment
Synaesthesia
Analogical phase of the experiment
Concluding notes
SOURCES OF TACTILE IMAGINATION
Arcimboldo’s elements game
Masturbation
Interpretation of the object
Questionnaire about loathing
Tactile dreaming
Touch your dreams
Synaesthesia:
Arthur Rimbaud, Vowels
Perversion for five senses
Connections
Morphology of fear
An unforgettable meeting
An imaginary portrait of Mikuláš Medek
SHORT ANTHOLOGY OF TACTILE ART
Albert Marencin, The Secret
Guillaume Apollinaire, Tactile Art
F. T. Marinetti, Tactilism
Ladislav Novák, Tactile Poems
Tactile imagination in Surrealism
Karel Teige, Second Manifesto of Poetism (fragment)
Frédérick Kiesler, Twin Touch Test
INSIDE
Ready-mades
From the tactile diary
Travel diary
Tactile collage
Dialogue between the right and left hand
Dialogue Vision – Touch (Eva Švankmajerová – Jan Švankmajer)
In the cellar
Imaginary portrait of Emila Medková
Preliminary notes on the tactile portrait of Eva Švankmajerová
Tactile portrait of Vratislav Effenberger
Tactile portrait of Ludvík Šváb
Touchable well-being (tactile poem)
Economical suicide (dedicated to Eva Švankmajerová)
Gestural sculpture
Like the touch of a dead trout (tactile poem – scenario)
Touch and humour
In the pocket (tactile one act play)
Problems with the distribution of tactile art
The magic ritual of tactile initiation
Index