Book Size 19 × 13 cm cm Printing softcover Publication Date 2017 Publisher Innen Condition Very Good Limited edition numbered 300
Selected Drawings from 1950 to 1990 /Miroslav Tichy
Super rare selection of drawings by Tichy. Must have for all Tichy and art-brut fans!
"After studying at the Academy of Arts in Prague, Miroslav Tichý withdrew to a life in isolation in his hometown of Kyjov, Moravia, Czech Republic. In the late 1950s he quitted painting and became a distinctive Diogenes-like figure. From the end of the 1960s he began to take photographs mainly of local women, in part with cameras he made by hand. He later mounted them on hand-made frames, added finishing touches with pencil, and thus moved them from photography in the direction of drawing. The result are works of strikingly unusual formal qualities, which disregard the rules of conventional photography. They constitute a large oeuvre of poetic, dreamlike views of feminine beauty in a small town under the Czechoslovak Communist régime."