Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams - Hardcover

Waldman, Diane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810912279 ISBN 13: 9780810912274

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2002

Synopsis

An examination of the elusive imagery of Joseph Cornell's shadow box and collage works is based on interviews with the artist and his family as wells as excerpts from his letters and papers.

About this title

About the Author:

Diane Waldman, a distinguished art historian and Cornell expert, was the deputy director and senior curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 1967 she organized the first major retrospective of Cornell's work in New York. Her many publications include Abrams' Mark Rothko and Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object. She lives in New York.

From Booklist:

Cornell's exquisite boxes, intimate constructions filled with found objects and collaged images, merit repeated visits just as poems call out to be read again and again, and each new Cornell book discloses something fresh and illuminating about this most magnetic and lyrical of artists. Waldman, an art historian, author, and former curator and deputy director of the Guggenheim Museum, knew Cornell and was the first to study his unique art. Now, nearly four decades later, she brings a wealth of long-brewing insights to this gorgeous volume, which boasts not only Waldman's lucid and expert commentary on Cornell's intriguing influences but also some of the finest color reproductions of his work ever published. Waldman discusses Cornell's fascination with games, Victorian imagery, ballet, movies, all things French, the young Medicis, constellations, hotels, and birds and cites the many poets and artists he revered, Dickinson and Vermeer among them. Ultimately, the profound enchantment of Cornell's poetic boxes can be attributed to their reflection of his "deeply reverential attitude toward the universe as a mirror of mysterious truths." Donna Seaman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0810912279
• ISBN 13: 9780810912274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152