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Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan Yale University Press Yale University Press
Joseph Cornell (1903–1972) was a self-taught yet highly sophisticated artist who is celebrated for his pioneering achievement in collage, assemblage, and film. Cornell’s lyrical compositions combine found materials in ways that...
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The Joseph Cornell Box: Found Objects, Magical Worlds

Joan Sommers, Ascha Drake Cider Mill Press Cider Mill Press
Working with found objects, pages from old books, and dime-store trinkets, self-taught artist Joseph Cornell (1903–1972) transformed everyday materials into extraordinary universes. By collecting and carefully juxtaposing his treasures in...
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Joseph Cornell's Dreams

Joseph Cornell Exact Change Exact Change
Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often in vain, to put into words the strange power of his boxes--toy-like constructions whose playfulness and humor are anchored in a profound melancholy and...
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Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (New York Review Books Classics)

Charles Simic NYRB Classics NYRB Classics
In Dime-Store Alchemy , poet Charles Simic re?ects 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...
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Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay...Eterniday

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Richard Vine, Robert Lehrman, Joseph Cornell, Walter Hopps Thames & Hudson Thames & Hudson
Published to celebrate the centennial of Joseph Cornell's birth in 1903, this book provides a fresh, multidimensional perspective on the pioneering modern artist. Lavishly illustrated with over seventy-five boxes and collages, as well as images of...
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Secrets in a Box (Adventures in Art)

Joseph Cornell, Alison Baverstock Prestel Publishing Prestel Publishing
Published to coincide with the centenary of Joseph Cornell's birth, this child's-eye view of one of America's best-loved artists includes guidelines for making your own Cornell box. Children relate to the art of Joseph Cornell. Look in their...
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Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files

Joseph Cornell Thames & Hudson Thames & Hudson
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...
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Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams

Diane Waldman "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
Out of the fantasies that enriched an often reclusive life, the enigmatic American artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) created a world of enchantment with his famed shadow boxes and collages. Using common objects like glasses, marbles, and mirrors,...
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Joseph Cornell's Vision of Spiritual Order (Reaktion Books - Essays in Art and Culture)

Lindsay Blair Reaktion Books Reaktion Books
The "boxes" and collages constructed by Joseph Cornell (1903–72) are among the most intriguing and beguiling works of art made this century. Old toys, photos, magazine illustrations, bits of electrical wiring – anything in fact more...
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Surrealism Usa

Scott Rothkopf, Robert Lubar, Michael Duncan, Robert Hobbs, Peter Blume, Arshile Gorky, Andre Masson, Kay Sage, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Isamu Noguchi, Jackson Pollock, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst Hatje Cantz Publishers Hatje Cantz Publishers
While Surrealism became unfashionable in Europe in the 1930s, it enjoyed increasing popularity across the Atlantic at the same time. Surrealism USa, the catalogue to the exhibition at the National Academy of Design, Surrealism USA, traces the...
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