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Compressed narratives, minute actions. (Art).(Column)
In the hands of Picasso and Braque--the first to employ it as artistic technique--collage was a formal means of exploring and testing the limits of two-dimensionality in painting. For the Surrealists, it was, in the words of T. G. Nguyen, "a creative strategy" like the cadavre exquis, a key to unlocking the subconscious and a method of frustrating rational meaning. Because their interests were primarily epistemological--what the clash of disparate elements might mean--the Surrealists' use of collage tended to result in jangling narrative pictures enlivened by visual puns and jokes. They came to collage by way of Dada rather than Cubism. To formalist Moderns of the ...
- Artful juxtapositions: from billboards to Joseph Cornell. (abstract...
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Garvey, John April 25, 1997 700+ words
...the corner from the home of Joseph Cornell, a wonderful artist who lived...Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell, by Deborah Solomon (Farrar...within walking distance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where "The Glories...
- Praising the riddle: Charles Simic and the Art of Joseph Cornell.(Currents)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Florczyk, Piotr November 1, 2007 700+ words
...surprise that a young Simic would find Joseph Cornell's famous boxes fascinating. Simic...to Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell, recently reprinted by New York Review...saying: "I have a dream in which Joseph Cornell and I pass each other on the street...
- Inside and outside: boxes inspired by Joseph Cornell.(art classes and scultures)
- Magazine article from: Arts & Activities Winters, Laurel May 1, 2009 700+ words
...always been intrigued by the work of Joseph Cornell and have been wanting to base a lesson...biographical PowerPoint presentation on Joseph Cornell and his work. Thus, the students...be abre to recognize the artwork of Joseph Cornell. * develop a design for the outside...
- Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Fitting, Peter January 1, 1999 700+ words
...Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux...City) where the American Surrealist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) lived for most of his...crafted boxes after the fashion of Joseph Cornell. As the author admits, this is the...
- Joseph Cornell. American, 1903-1972. Untitled (Lighted Owl).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: School Arts Gepson, Suzanne October 1, 2005 700+ words
Joseph Cornell American, 1903-1972. Untitled (Lighted Owl), c. 1949. Stained...Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornefl Collection. 1982. 1840 Joseph Cornell, an artist working in New York City in the middle of the twentieth...
- Joseph Cornell's alluring boxes; A lavish tribute to the modern artist on the...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor March 23, 2004 700+ words
...Like Lehrman, all the contributors to this celebration of Joseph Cornell attempt to describe the ineffable feeling of contemplating...Andreae writes about the arts from Glasgow, Scotland. Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay ... Eterniday Thames & Hudson 272 pp...
- Joseph Cornell: Theater of the Mind - Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files.
- Magazine article from: American Scholar Dailey, Peter September 22, 1997 700+ words
...by PETER DAILEY When the ballerina Tamara Toumanova met Joseph Cornell backstage after one of her performances in 1940, she found...arrangement of objects than a point of view. For most of his life Joseph Cornell shared a small house on Utopia Parkway in Flushing, New...
- Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters and Files....
- Magazine article from: School Arts Anderson, Kent November 1, 2001 700+ words
Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters and Files. Mary...Illus., softcover, 480 pp., $27.50. The famous boxes of Joseph Cornell give us an indication of one artist's perception of his inner and...
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