Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen - Book

The Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen offers a photographic tribute to Dutch artist Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures, known as 'beach creatures'. Published to complement a travelling exhibition, the book captures the wind-powered structures designed to roam the beaches of Holland. Its pages illustrate Jansen's imaginative vision through detailed photography, exploring the intersection of animate and inanimate forms.

The creation of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, Strandbeests or 'beach creatures' represent the evolution of a new kinetic life-form that moves, and even survives, on its own. The looming sculptures, powered by gusts of wind and set to roam the beaches of Holland, are captured in Taschen's 'Strandbeest. The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen', a photographic tribute published to complement a travelling exhibitions of the works. Across its pages Jansen’s imaginative vision is beautifully illustrated for a compelling insight into this mesmerisingly peculiar intersection of the animate and inanimate.