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HEISLER, JINDRICH. & WITKOVSKY, MATTHEW ,TOMAN, JINDRICH.
Surrealism under Pressure 1938-1953.

Yale University Press/Art Institute of Chicago, 2012. 26 x 21 cm. Hardcover with dustjacket. Richly illustrated in color and b/w. 144 pages. 

 Czech poet and photographer Jind?ich Heisler (1914-1953) joined the Czech Surrealist Group in 1938, just as Nazi occupation of the country was driving the movement and Czech artists underground. Heisler published his first book of poetry a year later. In his brief and courageous career. Heisler died suddenly at the age of thirty-eight ? he produced some of the most remarkable assemblage work of the Surrealist movement