Artful juxtapositions: from billboards to Joseph Cornell. (abstract paintings)(Of Several Minds)(Column)

From: Commonweal | Date: April 25, 1997| Author: Garvey, John | Copyright information

Joseph Cornell's abstract paintings and icons are alike in some way. They are both objects of art that suffered condemnation during their time. The church condemned iconoclasm until the end of the Byzantine era while abstract paintings are denounced as evil and immoral.

The Port Washington train from Manhattan to Queens passes a squarish, tapered white chimney mounted at the center of a building and painted with the strange fading words, EUTECTIC CASTOLIN. I have no idea what it me...

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