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Joseph Cornell

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Joseph Cornell American artist, 1903-72, b. Nyack, N.Y. Cornell is best known for his surrealist-flavored shadow boxes. These are relatively small constructions, within glass-fronted shallow boxes or frames, made of a wide variety of found objects, maps, photographs, engravings, and other materials. The Cornell boxes possess a unique visual magic, and their selection and arrangement are extraordinarily evocative and filled with personal symbolism. Hôtel du Nord (c.1953; Whitney Mus., New York City) is a representative work.

Bibliography: See biography by D. Solomon (1997); study by D. Waldman (2002).

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