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""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 Crime

Keith Johnson's Jan Svankmajer 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 Svankmajer's art as the bearer of 'a vital, emergent, biopolitical, ethical, and ecological outlook.' Featuring details analyses of the artist's full body of cinematic, artistic, and curatorial work, as well as an illuminating set of interviews, Jan Svankmajer presents the Czech artist in vital, living color. --Jonathan Eburne, author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime

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Keith Leslie Johnson is a lecturer of English and film and media studies at the College of William and Mary.

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