Enchantments

Enchantments
Author: Marci Kwon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: ART
ISBN: 0691181403

"This book uncovers a largely overlooked strand of American modernism in Cornell's work that engaged with current issues through the metaphysical aspects of vernacular objects and experiences"--

Utopia Parkway

Utopia Parkway
Author: Deborah Solomon
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre: 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.

Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell
Author: Joseph Cornell
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1990
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of the work of a quintessential American artist, Joseph Cornell, this volume presents his life and work, including an analysis of his relationship to twentieth-century art, particularly to Surrealism.

Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell
Author: Joseph Cornell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300111620

The first retrospective of the work of Joseph Cornell in the past 20 years reflects a personal exploration of art and culture that represent his belief in art as an uplifting voyage into the imagination.

Dime-Store Alchemy

Dime-Store Alchemy
Author: Charles Simic
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2011-09-20
Genre: 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.

In Resonance

In Resonance
Author: Joseph Cornell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A Joseph Cornell Album

A Joseph Cornell Album
Author: Dore Ashton
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2009-01-29
Genre: 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.

The Essential

The Essential
Author: Ingrid Schaffner
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780810958333

Cornell (1903-1972), 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 glass-fronted wooden boxes and frames. 60 illustrations.

Joseph Cornell and Surrealism

Joseph Cornell and Surrealism
Author: Matthew Affron
Publisher: Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780983505976

The essays in Joseph Cornell and Surrealism consider connections between Cornell and the Surrealist group during the 1930s and 1940s, during Cornell's artistic development and the heyday of Surrealism in the United States.

The Amazing Collection of Joey Cornell: Based on the Childhood of a Great American Artist

The Amazing Collection of Joey Cornell: Based on the Childhood of a Great American Artist
Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0399552405

Award-winning and bestselling author Candace Fleming delivers a stunning picture-book based on the childhood of artist and sculptor Joseph Cornell, sure to beguile aspiring artists and collectors of all ages. Joey Cornell collected everything -- anything that sparked his imagination or delighted his eye. His collection grew and grew until he realized that certain pieces just looked right together. He assembled his doodads to create wonderful, magical creations out of once ordinary objects. Perfect for introducing art to kids, here's an imaginative and engaging book based on the childhood of great American artist Joseph Cornell, told by master picture book author Candace Fleming and lauded illustrator Gérard DuBois.