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Joseph Cornell : navigating the imagination / Lynda Roscoe Hartigan.
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection N6537.C66 A4 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cornell, Joseph.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cornell, Joseph.
- Assemblage (Art).
- Surrealism--United States.
- Surrealism.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 391 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Salem, Mass. : Peabody Essex Museum ; New Haven, Conn. ; London : in association with Yale University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Cornell's lyrical compositions combine found materials in ways that reflect a very personal exploration of art and culture and that represent his belief in art as an uplifting voyage into the imagination.
- Contents:
- When does an artist become an artist?
- Navigating a career
- Cabinets of curiosity
- Dream machines
- Nature's theater
- Geographies of the heavens
- Bouquets of homage
- Crystal cages
- Chambers of time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-384) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300111620
- 0300111622
- 9780875772110
- 0875772110
- OCLC:
- 71347273
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