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Joseph Cornell and Surrealism

Joseph Cornell and Surrealism

Ramond, Sylvie
Affron, Matthew

Paperback

Art HistorySculpture & Installation

ISBN10: 0983505977
ISBN13: 9780983505976
Publisher: Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia
Published: Jun 15 2015
Pages: 180
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), the American pioneer of collage, montage, and assemblage art, is sometimes regarded as a solitary star within the constellation of great Surrealists. The essays in Joseph Cornell and Surrealism consider connections between Cornell and the Surrealist group during the 1930s and 1940s, during Cornell's artistic development and the heyday of Surrealism in the United States. He shared with the Surrealists his basic conception of the visual image as the product of poetic juxtaposition. In his best-known works--the collages, small constructions of found objects, and classic shadow boxes--he took key Surrealist methods in new directions. The essays also examine Cornell's achievement in other formats, including his ground-breaking collage film and the open-ended and nonlinear archives of printed materials that he called explorations, as well as the art, literature, music, and dance that nourished his unconventional artistic output.

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