Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell

Author: Diane Waldman

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2006-04-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780810992528

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As a former curator and director of the Guggenheim, Diane Waldman knew Joseph Cornell well. This heavily illustrated book covers Cornell's entire career from his earliest surrealist-inspired collages to his return to collage before his death in 1972.


Dime-Store Alchemy

Dime-Store Alchemy

Author: Charles Simic

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2011-09-20

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1590174860

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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.


Mr. Cornell's Dream Boxes

Mr. Cornell's Dream Boxes

Author: Jeanette Winter

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-08-19

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1442499028

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Children young and old will delight in the artistic splendor of this illustrated nonfiction tale about artist Joseph Cornell, from celebrated picture book biographer Jeanette Winter. Joseph Cornell loved to draw and paint and collect things. With these drawings and paintings and collected treasures, he made marvelous shadowboxes—wonderlands covered in glass. And who did he most like to share them with? Children, of course. For they noticed all the details and took in all the magic Mr. Cornell had created. In this inspiring nonfiction picture book, Jeanette Winter has painted a moving portrait of a New York artist who always felt his work was best understood by children.


Utopia Parkway

Utopia Parkway

Author: Deborah Solomon

Publisher: Other Press, LLC

Published: 2015-10-13

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 1590517148

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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.


The Essential

The Essential

Author: Ingrid Schaffner

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2003-06-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780810958333

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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.


Enchantments

Enchantments

Author: Marci Kwon

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0691181403

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"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"--


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

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0399552405

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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.


Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell

Author: Joseph Cornell

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 9780300111620

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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.


A Joseph Cornell Album

A Joseph Cornell Album

Author: Dore Ashton

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2009-01-29

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0786745053

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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.