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  Dime-Store Alchemy

  The Art of Joseph Cornell

  by Charles Simic, Joseph Cornell

  In Dime-Store Alchemy Charles Simic, one of contemporary America’s most idiosyncratic, engaging, and skillful poets, reflects on the art of the homegrown American surrealist Joseph Cornell. In a work that is in various degrees biography, criticism, and sheer poetry, Simic tells of Cornell’s life in Utopia Parkway, Queens and of how he loved to wander the streets of New York hunting for overlooked and unexpected... (more)
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  The Joseph Cornell Box: Found Objects, Magical Worlds

  by Joseph Cornell, Joan Sommers

  Working with found objects, pages from old books, and dime-store trinkets, self-taught artist Joseph Cornell (1903–1972) transformed everyday materials into extraordinary universes.  By collecting and carefully juxtaposing his treasures in small, glass-front boxes, this pioneering artist invented visual poems exploring themes as varied as the night sky, the romantic ballet, glamorous movie stars, and bird... (more)
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  Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay...Eterniday

  by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Joseph Cornell

  Published to celebrate the centennial of Joseph Cornell's birth in 1903, this book provides a fresh, multidimensional perspective on the pioneering modern artist. Lavishly illustrated with over seventy-five boxes and collages, as well as images of the fascinating source material that the artist collected to create his exquisitely crafted worlds, the book communicates to the reader the sense of surprise and delight... (more)
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  Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind

  Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files

  by Joseph Cornell, Mary Ann Caws

  Joseph Cornell's reputation has only grown since his death in 1973. His boxes - stuffed with such objects as flowers, buttons and toys - are among the most unique achievements in the modernist canon. His life seems as mysterious as his boxes. For virtually all of his adult existence, he lived in New York with his mother and brother, amid the mass of materials he had accumulated. Though he showed his work... (more)
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  Utopia Parkway Cornell

  by Deborah Solomon

  No artist ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell (1903-72), the self-taught American genius prized for his enchanting and disquieting shadow boxes, an art form all his own. A thin, drawn diffident spectre of a man, he was haunted by dreams and visions, yet the site of his imaginings couldn't have been more ordinary: a white frame house he shared with his mother and brother on Utopia Parkway in Queens, on... (more)
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  The Essential Joseph Cornell

  by Ingrid Schaffner, Joseph Cornell

  Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), the American assemblage artist, was a quirky but passionate collector of bric-a-brac who used trinkets, scraps of paper, paint, and lots of glue to arrange imaginative worlds inside glass-front wooden boxes and frames. While evoking the Victorian era and childhood pastimes, Cornell developed a collage technique that radically transformed the way art could be made--and seen--for... (more)
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  JOSEPH CORNELL: COLLAGES AND BOX CONSTRUCTIONS

  by JOSEPH). (CORNELL

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  A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell - Limited Edition

  Jonathan Safran Foer has long had a passion for the work of the twentieth-century American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. Inspired by Cornell's avian-themed boxes, and suspecting that they would be similarly inspiring to others, Foer began to write letters. The responses he received from luminaries of American writing were nothing short of astounding. Twenty writers generously contributed pieces of prose and... (more)
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  The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

  by Martin Luther King, Jr., Clayborne Carson

  Clayborne Carson has created a book that remarkably approximates a self-portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. Delving into all aspects of this man's life, the work covers his boyhood, his education, and his emergence as a leader. From his relationships with his wife and children, to his dealings with the important political figures of the era, this book defines the history of a genuine hero.Compiled from... (more)