Franciszka Themerson and the Gaberbocchus Press: Bestlookers versus Bestsellers

Agnieszka Taborska

doi:10.18778/8220-191-8

Franciszka Themerson and the Gaberbocchus Press: Bestlookers versus Bestsellers

Agnieszka Taborska

Rhode Island School of Design

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Moving between Modes: Papers in Intersemiotic Translation in Memoriam Professor Alina Kwiatkowska

Pages: 151-159

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-191-8.10

Keywords: Non-Verbal Communication, Film Adaptations, Multimodal Texts, Intersemiotic Translation, Chmura, Intersemiosis, Media Transformation, performance

Published: 30 December 2020

Categories: Foreign language studies, Open Access

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Agnieszka Taborska, Rhode Island School of Design

Agnieszka Taborska is a writer and an art historian specializing in surrealism. She lives in Warsaw and Providence, US, where she teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the author of over twenty books (fiction and essays on Surrealism), several of which have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. Her books include, among others, The Dreaming Life of Leonora de la Cruz; Topor’s Alphabet; American Crumbs; The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks; Conspirators of Imagination: Surrealism; The Whale, or Objective Chance, as well as the translations of novels by Philippe Soupault, Gisèle Prassinos, and Spalding Gray. Selections from her Not as in Paradise were chosen for Best European Fiction 2017 from Dalkey Archive Press. She had recently contributed essays to The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019).

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Taborska, Agnieszka. 2020. “Franciszka Themerson and the Gaberbocchus Press: Bestlookers Versus Bestsellers”. In Moving Between Modes: Papers in Intersemiotic Translation in Memoriam Professor Alina Kwiatkowska, edited by Mikołaj Deckert, Monika Kocot, and Aleksandra Majdzińska-Koczorowicz, 151-59. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-191-8.10.