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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Keith Johnson’s
Jan Švankmajer is a triumph: a bold, synoptic, and elegantly written conceptual survey that brings fully to life the animating ideas of the Czech surrealist artist-filmmaker. Attending to the work of
animation as a philosophy of life rather than an aesthetic technique alone, Johnson’s book lucidly presents Švankmajer’s art as the bearer of 'a vital, emergent, biopolitical, ethical, and ecological outlook.' Featuring detailed analyses of the artist’s full body of cinematic, artistic, and curatorial work, as well as an illuminating set of interviews,
Jan Švankmajer presents the Czech artist in vital, living color."--Jonathan Eburne, author of
Surrealism and the Art of CrimeTable of ContentsCoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsANIMIST CINEMAHumiliation, or Object LifeOn the Marionette CinemaAnti-Illusion: Fantasy in G Minor and Et CeteraCombinatorics: The Last Trick and Game with StonesTragedies without Actors: The Ossuary and Fall of the House of UsherWunderkammer, or Creaturely LifeAmateur Play: Historia naturaeImpersonal Play: Picnic with WeissmannChild’s Play: Down to the Cellar, Alice, and Little OtikHaptics, or Animal LifeYou Are What You Eat: FoodThe Art of Conversation: Dimensions of DialoguePlease Touch: Conspirators of PleasureImagination, or Political LifeAs Above, So Below: Faust(Ab)normalization: The Flat, A Quiet Week in the House, and The Death of Stalinism in BohemiaAbsolute Freedom: LunacySurvival, or Ecological LifeFlat Ontology: Surviving LifeEthical Misanthropy: HmyzINTERVIEWS WITH JAN SVANKMAJERFilmographyBibliographyIndex
