Jan Svankmajer wrote this remarkable book on tactile art when he stopped
directing films and experimented intensively with tactile art after
repeated censorship by the communist governmnent of Czechoslovakia.
Illustrated with over 100 imges, this book is organised around many
reproductions of Svanmajker's wondrous tactile art objects, tactile
poems, experiments and games. It includes dialogues with, and artworks
by, other collaborating artists from the Group of Czech and Slovak
Surrealists. Svankmajer also gathers together as contributors such
notable exponents of tactical experience as Edgar Allan Poe, Guillaume
Appollinaire, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Meret Oppenheim, Edith
Clifford Williams, Ay-O, Valie Export, F.T. Marinetti and Karel Teige.