Portland Public Library

Joseph Cornell and Surrealism, edited by Matthew Affron and Sylvie Ramond

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-175) and index

contains biographical information

illustrationsportraits

index present

non fiction

Joseph Cornell and Surrealism

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909326833

edited by Matthew Affron and Sylvie Ramond

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. This volume considers connections between Cornell and the Surrealist group during the 1930s and 1940s, which mark 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 Cornell's best-known works - the collages, small constructions of found objects, and classic shadow boxes - he took this key Surrealist method to new directions. This book also examines Cornell's achievement in other formats, including his ground-breaking collage film and the open-ended and nonlinear achives of printed materials that he called "explorations." Joseph Cornell and Surrealism also explores the ideas on art, literature, music, and dance that nourished his unconventional artistic output. -- from inside cover

Foreword / Elizabeth Glassman -- Director's Foreword / Bruce Boucher -- Preface and Acknowledgements / Matthew Affron and Sylvie Ramond -- Cornell and the Tradition of Curiosity / Stephen Bann -- Museums, Muses : Notes on Joseph Cornell / Sylvie Ramond, François-René Martin -- With Hidden Noise / Emmanuel Guigon -- The Box-Books of Joseph Cornell : A Romantic Art? / Ségolène Le Men -- Joseph Cornell, Le Chasseur d'Images / Lynda Roscoe Hartigan -- Sweepings / Jodi Hauptman -- Joseph Cornell's Optical Toys / Matthew Affron -- Unforgettable : How Joseph Cornell Wrested 'Rose Hobart (1936) from East of Borneo (1931)' / Anne Morra -- Joseph Cornell's Music Box / Camille Lévêque-Claudet -- The Circus Performer and the Dancer : Notes on Cornell and the Neo-Romantics / Patrick Mauriès -- The Intuitive Space of Joseph Cornell / Howard Hussey