Joseph Cornell, Issue 54An artist whose life and work continue to be endlessly fascinating, Joseph Cornell remains one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century. Now available at an attractive price, this classic book on the Prestel list provides a captivating entree into the artist's remarkable inner world: a universe populated with the empty cages, mirrors, clay pipes, postage stamps, marbles, thimbles and paper scraps Cornell collected in his basement repository and fashioned into self-contained constructions, montages, collages, and films. The artist's relationship to both American and European Romanticism, his involvement with the Surrealist movement, the peculiar mechanics of his work, and a glimpse at his cinematic explorations are accompanied by an illuminating biography and numerous illustrations. This survey brings to life the work of a brilliant artist whose imaginative re-ordering of the world's chaos is as inspiring today as it was half a century ago. |
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... Max Ernst , in par- ticular the collage - novel La Femme 100 têtes ( 1929 ) , which provoked him to become an artist . What attracted him to these collages was their use of nineteenth - century engravings : images often of an inherent ...
... Max Ernst , in par- ticular the collage - novel La Femme 100 têtes ( 1929 ) , which provoked him to become an artist . What attracted him to these collages was their use of nineteenth - century engravings : images often of an inherent ...
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... Max Ernst : Jeanne Hachette et Charles le Téméraire . 1929. Collage , 98 x 7 % in . Private collection pete for our attention with its poetic meaning . He wishes to present an enigma and at the same time is fascinated by the ...
... Max Ernst : Jeanne Hachette et Charles le Téméraire . 1929. Collage , 98 x 7 % in . Private collection pete for our attention with its poetic meaning . He wishes to present an enigma and at the same time is fascinated by the ...
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... Max Ernst , ' Galerie au Sans Pareil , Paris , May 1921 ; reprinted in Max Ernst , Beyond Painting and Other Writings by the Artist and His Friends , Breton text trans . Ralph Manheim ( New York : Wittenborn , Schultz , Inc. , 1948 ) ...
... Max Ernst , ' Galerie au Sans Pareil , Paris , May 1921 ; reprinted in Max Ernst , Beyond Painting and Other Writings by the Artist and His Friends , Breton text trans . Ralph Manheim ( New York : Wittenborn , Schultz , Inc. , 1948 ) ...
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