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With affection and critical respect, a celebrated art historian has gathered an unprecedented wealth of material about the shy but immensely influential artist who lived on incongruously named Utopia Parkway in Queens, New York.
Author : Dore Ashton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0786745053
With affection and critical respect, a celebrated art historian has gathered an unprecedented wealth of material about the shy but immensely influential artist who lived on incongruously named Utopia Parkway in Queens, New York.
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Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 2003
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ISBN : 9780500976289
Author : Charles Simic
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 1590174860
Now in Paperback In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.
Author : Deborah Solomon
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 43,44 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1590517148
Deborah Solomon’s definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America’s most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued twenty years later with updated and extensively revised text Few artists ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius prized for his enigmatic shadow boxes, who stands at the intersection of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art. Legends about Cornell abound—the shy hermit, the devoted family caretaker, the artistic innocent—but never before has he been presented for what he was: a brilliant, relentlessly serious artist whose stature has now reached monumental proportions.
Author : Mary Clare McKinley
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588396274
Between 1953 and 1966, New York assemblage artist Joseph Cornell created more than twenty works in homage to Juan Gris, specifically inspired by the Cubist’s collage masterpiece, The Man at the Café(1914). Cornell’s Gris boxes have as their centerpiece the image of a bird, the great white-crested cockatoo, whose delightful and erudite connections to the Cubist’s oeuvre and to Cornell’s own hobbies, love of music, and distinctive approach to modern art are comprehensively documented here for the first time.
Author : Joseph Cornell
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
Edited and Introduction by Catherine Corman.
Author : Joseph Cornell
Publisher :
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500282434
Joseph Cornell is a legendary yet living presence in American art. His famous boxes, with their ineffably perfect choice of elements -- the stuffed birds, the buttons and toys, the fragments of old theatrical posters, the poignant allusions to the worlds of the nineteenth-century ballet and opera -- are some of the most recognizable signatures in all of twentieth-century art.From this extended selection of his diaries and other written material, Cornell emerges as a deeply dedicated and conscious artist, though one whose personality was every bit as unusual as many had perceived. Cornell used his diaries as he used his boxes, to capture and preserve his passing feelings, his momentary urges, and his anguished hesitations. He was an incessant and brilliant recorder of his thoughts as he considered his art or traveled to New York to haunt the antiquarian bookstores and shops where he collected material for his boxes.We see here his deep immersion in French symbolist poetry and his intense interest in his surrealist contemporaries. We see also his plangent yearning for les sylphides, the fairies of the ballet world who seemed to be reincarnated for him in the form of waitresses, dancers, actresses, and shop girls in his own world. Cornell corresponded with an astonishing range of people including Parker Tyler, Marianne Moore, Tony Curtis, Robert Motherwell, and Susan Sontag. His letters were often sent in the form of collages, and several of them are reproduced in this book.
Author : Jenny Kaminer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501762206
Haunted Dreams is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to cultural representations of adolescence in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Jenny Kaminer situates these cultural representations within the broader context of European and Anglo-American scholarship on adolescence and youth, and she explores how Russian writers, dramatists, and filmmakers have repeatedly turned to the adolescent protagonist in exploring the myriad fissures running through post-Soviet society. Through close analysis of prose, drama, television, and film, this book maps how the adolescent hero has become a locus for multiple anxieties throughout the tumultuous years since the end of the Soviet experiment. Kaminer also directly addresses some of the pivotal questions facing scholars of post-Soviet Russia: Have Soviet cultural models been transcended? Or do they continue to dominate? The figure of the adolescent, an especially potent and enduring source of cultural mythology throughout the Soviet years, provides provocative material for exploring these questions. In Haunted Dreams, Kaminer employs a historical approach to reveal how fantasies of adolescence have mutated and remained constant across the Soviet/post-Soviet divide, focusing on violence, temporality, and gender and the body. Some of the works discussed present the possibility of salvaging the model of the heroic adolescent for a new society. Others, by contrast, relegate this figure to the dustbin of history by evoking disgust or horror, or by unmasking the tragic consequences that ensue from the combination of adolescence, violence, and fantasy.
Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892365906
Exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 13 November 2001 to 3 February 2002.
Author : Jason Edwards
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783039110582
"The essays collected here derive from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference, entitled 'Boxing Clever: A Centennial Re-Evaluation of Joseph Cornell', which was held at the AHRC Centre for the Studies of Surrealism and Its Legacies at the University of Essex between 17 and 19 September, 2003"--P. [9].