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.

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.

A Little White Shadow

A Little White Shadow
Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher: Wave Books
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2006-05-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1933517034

An exquisite art book of gentle and elegant found poetry.

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.

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.

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather
Author: Mary Clare McKinley
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2018-01-22
Genre: 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.

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.

The Labyrinth

The Labyrinth
Author: Saul Steinberg
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2018-11-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1681372436

A seminal work by an artist whose drawings in The New Yorker, LIFE, Harper's Bazaar, and many other publications influenced an entire generation of American artists and writers. Saul Steinberg’s The Labyrinth, first published in 1960 and long out of print, is more than a simple catalog or collection of drawings. These carefully arranged pages record a brilliant, constantly evolving imagination confronting modern life. Here is Steinberg, as he put it at the time, discovering and inventing a great variety of events: "Illusion, talks, music, women, cats, dogs, birds, the cube, the crocodile, the museum, Moscow and Samarkand (winter, 1956), other Eastern countries, America, motels, baseball, horse racing, bullfights, art, frozen music, words, geometry, heroes, harpies, etc.” This edition, featuring a new introduction by Nicholson Baker, an afterword by Harold Rosenberg, and new notes on the artwork, will allow readers to discover this unique and wondrous book all over again.

Hotel Andromeda

Hotel Andromeda
Author: Gabriel Josipovici
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781847772633

In a house in a quiet street in North London, Helena struggles with her self-appointed task of writing a book about the reclusive American artist Joseph Cornell. At the same time she dreams and thinks about her sister Alice working in an orphanage in Chechnya. She is certain that Alice despises her for living a life of comfort and privilege, far away from the horrors of war; yet she knows too that her work is more than self-indulgence. How to reconcile these two visions? Enter Ed, a Czech journalist and photographer who claims he has been working in Chechnya and brings news of Alice, along with the request for a bed for the few days he has to be in London. Gabriel Josipovici’s sparkling new novel charts the course of those few days, as Joseph Cornell’s mysterious life and the strange boxes he constructed wage a silent struggle in Helena’s mind and spirit with the imperatives of the present.