Joseph Cornell Opening the Box

In spite of the widespread fascination with the life and work of American artist Joseph Cornell in both the academy and gallery, studies of Cornell to date have been circumscribed by a range of critical clichés about the artist being a childlike dreamer, hermetically sealed off from the world, which has prevented his work from being fully understood in all of its complexity and diversity. This book contains more that 50 illustrations of the artist's work - many never before reproduced - and provides13 ground-breaking new essays on the artist's films, dossiers, pill-boxes, magazine work, correspondence, diary entries and more ephemeral writings from internationally reputed scholars from both sides of the Atlantic.Edwards, Jason is the author of 'Joseph Cornell Opening the Box', published 2007 under ISBN 9780820493435 and ISBN 0820493430.