Utopia Parkway The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell |
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| Author:
| Solomon, Deborah
Cornell, Joseph |
| ISBN: | 978-0-224-04242-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1997 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $82.95 |
Book Description:
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This is the biography of Joseph Cornell, an artist who was admired by the Surrealists, the Abstract Expressionists and the pop artists. Cornell lived almost all his life with his mother and badly handicapped brother. A recluse with no formal artistic training, Cornell had an obsessive fear of female sexuality, but he fantasized about ballerinas and film stars, preferably long dead. These fantasies were expressed in his remarkable shadow boxes, the constructions on which his artistic...
More DescriptionThis is the biography of Joseph Cornell, an artist who was admired by the Surrealists, the Abstract Expressionists and the pop artists. Cornell lived almost all his life with his mother and badly handicapped brother. A recluse with no formal artistic training, Cornell had an obsessive fear of female sexuality, but he fantasized about ballerinas and film stars, preferably long dead. These fantasies were expressed in his remarkable shadow boxes, the constructions on which his artistic reputation rests.