The essential Joseph Cornell /

The essential Joseph Cornell /

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Joseph Cornell, the American assemblage artist, was a quirky (but passionate) collector of bric-a-brac who used trinkets, scraps of paper, paint, and lots of glue to arrange imaginative worlds inside of glass-fronted wooden boxes and frames. Did you know that: Cornell's infatuation with movie s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schaffner, Ingrid
Corporate Author: Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Other Authors: Cornell, Joseph
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Wonderland Press : H.N. Abrams, 2003
New York, NY : 2003
New York, NY : 2003
Series:Essential series (Wonderland Press)
Subjects:
Cornell, Joseph > Criticism and interpretation
Cornell, Joseph, > 1903-1972
Cornell, Joseph
Artists > United States > Biography
Assemblage (Art) > United States
CHR 2003
PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Assemblage (Art)
Criticism and interpretation
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Table of Contents:
  • Unpacking Joseph Cornell
  • Poet of everyday life
  • Perverse pleasure
  • Five easy pieces = One essential factor
  • Boyhood interrupted
  • Hard knocks and daydreams: 1921-31
  • Making toys for adults: 1932-40
  • Utopia parkway
  • Secret squirrel
  • Working for the woman
  • Passionate about photography
  • Opening sensation
  • Symbolist by nature
  • Full-fledged collage artist: 1940-50
  • Balletomane
  • Year of the suitcase: 1942
  • Cornell's "museum" of women and girls
  • Look, but don't touch!
  • Old age and grand pop: 1963-72
  • Scattered remains of the day

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