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SPARKINGS.(artist Joseph Cornell)
The monosyllables of condescension form at the back of the throat and hover in the staging space just before the lips: "twee," "fey," "camp," even "cute." The art under inspection, after all, has that form technically called mushy stuff in syrup: old French hotel ads and stuffed birds and soap-bubble pipes hermetically sealed behind glass, evoking vanished Victorian worlds of Curiosity Shops and steamer trunks and natural-history-museum displays of long-refuted principles. They ought to have dated; they ought to date; they are, in a way, about being dated. And yet something keeps the visitor locked in place, looking, and turns his mind to the warmer, though still not ...
- Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Fitting, Peter January 1, 1999 700+ words
Deborah Solomon. Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell. New York: Farrar, Strauss...xiii + 426 pp. $30.00. UTOPIA PARKWAY is not a reference to some...American Surrealist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) lived for...
- Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell.
- Magazine article from: American Scholar Dailey, Peter September 22, 1997 700+ words
...falling. The subject of a Cornell box is often less an arrangement...For most of his life Joseph Cornell shared a small house on Utopia Parkway in Flushing, New York, with...cerebral palsy. The death of Cornell's father, a prosperous...
- Utopia Parkway.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Newspaper article from: Library Bookwatch April 1, 2005 700+ words
Utopia Parkway Deborah Solomon Museum of Fine Arts Publications 465...org Deborah Solomon's biography of artist Joseph Cornell in Utopia Parkway: The Life And Work Of Joseph Cornell, joins other outstanding titles in the MFA's 'artWorks...
- A Very Naughty Greek Play (Utopia Parkway).(Theater Review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Stasio, Marilyn March 8, 2005 700+ words
(Baruch Performing Arts Center. 199 seats; 545 top) An Aquila Theater Company presentation of a musical in one act written and staged by the company from a new translation by Peter Meineck of Aristophanes' "Wasps." Music by Anthony Cochrane. Costumes. Megan Bowers: graphic design, Brown Cathell.
- Cornell outside the box.
- Magazine article from: Art in America Stuckey, Charles F. September 1, 2004 700+ words
...in 1993 (Joseph Cornell's Theater of...exemplary biography Utopia Parkway, The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell, published in...artist, as well as Cornell family memorabilia...workshop at his Utopia Parkway home, in Flushing...
- Artful juxtapositions: from billboards to Joseph Cornell. (abstract...
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Garvey, John April 25, 1997 700+ words
...palsy in a house on Utopia Parkway. I discovered the juxtaposition of Cornell and EUTECTIC CASTOLIN...of his art does. Cornell is the subject of a recent biography, Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell, by Deborah Solomon...
- Responsible Viewing: Charles Simic's Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph...
- Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature MORRIS, DANIEL September 22, 1998 700+ words
...artistic training, Cornell designed collages in...of a modest house on Utopia Parkway, Bayside, Queens...Avenue. Simic describes Cornell's creative process...out from his home on Utopia Parkway without knowing what...In the meantime, Cornell walks and looks. The...
- Joseph Cornell: Theater of the Mind - Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files.
- Magazine article from: American Scholar Dailey, Peter September 22, 1997 700+ words
...falling. The subject of a Cornell box is often less an arrangement...For most of his life Joseph Cornell shared a small house on Utopia Parkway in Flushing, New York, with...cerebral palsy. The death of Cornell's father, a prosperous...