Utopia Parkway : The Life And Work Of Joseph Cornell
by Deborah Solomon /
2015 / English / EPUB
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No artist ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius prized for his disquieting shadow boxes, who stands at the intersection of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. Legends about Cornell abound–as the shy hermit, the devoted family caretaker, the artistic innocent–but never before "Utopia Parkway" has he been presented for what he was: a brilliant, relentlessly serious artist whose stature has now reached monumental proportions. Cornell was haunted by dreams and visions, yet the site of his imaginings couldn't have been more ordinary: a small house he shared with his mother and invalid brother in Queens, New York.
