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Unable to publish in communist Czechoslovakia, Jiří Kolař saw Responses 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 "Kafka's Prague," 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 Kolař's creative flux at a particular moment in time.

Crumplage is a technique developed by Kolař 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.

Jiri Kolar (Protivín, 1914 - Prague, 2002) was one of the most important postwar poets/visual artists in Central Europe. A member of the avant-garde Group 42, most of his major texts were composed in the 1950s and 1960s. He is, however, more well known internationally for his collage innovation, developing a number of techniques for combining and manipulating scraps of texts and images from a variety of sources to portray the destruction and fragmentation of the world around him. A signatory of Charter 77, Kolář lived in exile in Paris from 1980, but spent the final years of his life in Prague.