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Title: Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams by Diane Waldman ISBN: 0-8109-1227-9 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Primer On Cornell and His Work
Comment: Finally, a beautiful, comprehensive book about Joseph Cornell and his work. Diane Waldman knew Cornell intimately ever since she was an art student (and through doing gallery shows for him), and this affinity shows; this is ultimately a book of love and tribute to a friend.
The biographical material is excellent. Most fascinating segments deal with Cornell's stranger sides, such as when at his brother Robert's funeral, Joseph put a sheet over his head and laughed, creeping everyone out, and explained it was only a side joke that Robert would have understood. Cornell was terribly timid in front of women (particularly the ones he fancied) and had a complete dependence on his mother (he died months after she did). Waldman probes these and other significant personal issues (such as his association with Surrealism, and how the younger artists that have passed through him have influenced his work) and examines how they factored in Cornell's art. The book is generous with illustrations - Waldman supports her points with not only Cornell's work, but with other artists that were influential to him.
However, it is the lonely and telling poetry of Cornell's work that is the heart of this book. The boxes that Waldman chooses to include are presented intelligently, and beautifully. The innocence and nostalgia of each box is lovingly portrayed. The Medici series - Cornell's especially heartbreakingly beautiful and mysteriously passionate work - is presented perfectly by Waldman with thoughtful commentary and context, capturing in full its yearning and ardor. Waldman has given us a book that speaks eloquently about why Cornell is an artists people will remember for generations hereafter.
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Title: Joseph Cornell: Postcards (Prestel Postcard Book) by Prestel ISBN: 3791323245 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files by Mary Ann Caws, John Ashbery, Robert Motherwell ISBN: 0500282439 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay...Eterniday by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Richard Vine, Robert Lehrman, Walter Hopps ISBN: 0500976287 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 27 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: The Essential Joseph Cornell by Ingrid Schaffner ISBN: 0810958333 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Secrets in a Box (Adventures in Art) by Joseph Cornell, Alison Baverstock, Christopher Wynne ISBN: 3791329286 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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