Joseph Cornell's alluring boxes; A lavish tribute to the modern artist on the 100th anniversary of his birth.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: March 23, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Christopher Andreae

"Cornell could take you into the universe in the space of a thimble," writes Robert Lehrman, a prominent collector of this mid-20th-century American artist's small-scale but visionary work.

Like Lehrman, all the contributors to this celebration of Joseph Cornell attempt to describe the ineffable feeling of contemplating his "shadow boxes" or "poetic theaters." Cornell himself, we are told, rarely committed explanations of his art to paper. Perhaps in consequence, there has not been a shortage of analyzers and admirers since his death in 1972 ...

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