{"product_id":"responses-kafkas-prague-9788086264578","title":"Responses \/ Kafka's Prague","description":"Unable to publish in communist Czechoslovakia, JirU+00ED KolU+00E1r saw \u003ci\u003eResponses\u003c\/i\u003e first appear in 1984 with the exile publishing house Index based in Cologne, Germany. The text discusses his influences and wide variety of collage techniques as well as art and literature in general. He pairs it with U+201CKafka's Prague, U+201D a series of color crumplages of Prague's buildings, streets, squares, and gardens accompanied by short extracts from Franz Kafka's work, which was also banned by the regime, as a sort of homage to the city whose artistic vitality was being snuffed out by communist repression. The result is a fascinating document akin to an artist's book that captures KolU+00E1r's creative flux at a particular moment in time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Crumplage is a technique developed by KolU+00E1r in which a sheet of paper or reproduction is crumpled at random and then flattened out and pasted onto a backing, creating a deformation of the original image or a new image\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Twisted Spoon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9788086264578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 6.70w x 0.50d","brand":"Kolu+00e1r","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41261933527221,"sku":"9788086264578","price":19.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6193fa32-fb38-4cb5-a5d5-ad0241a7e33c.jpg?v=1634653418","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/responses-kafkas-prague-9788086264578","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}