Dime Store Alchemy

Author : Charles Simic
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174860
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dime-Store Alchemy written by Charles Simic and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in Paperback In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.

Author : Charles Simic
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174860
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dime-Store Alchemy written by Charles Simic and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in Paperback In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.

Author : Dore Ashton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786745053
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Joseph Cornell Album written by Dore Ashton and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With affection and critical respect, a celebrated art historian has gathered an unprecedented wealth of material about the shy but immensely influential artist who lived on incongruously named Utopia Parkway in Queens, New York.

Author : Mary Ruefle
Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1933517034
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Little White Shadow written by Mary Ruefle and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisite art book of gentle and elegant found poetry.

Author : Joseph Cornell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300111620
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joseph Cornell written by Joseph Cornell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first retrospective of the work of Joseph Cornell in the past 20 years reflects a personal exploration of art and culture that represent his belief in art as an uplifting voyage into the imagination.

Author : Deborah Solomon
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590517156
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utopia Parkway written by Deborah Solomon and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deborah Solomon’s definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America’s most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued twenty years later with updated and extensively revised text Few artists ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius prized for his enigmatic shadow boxes, who stands at the intersection of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art. Legends about Cornell abound—the shy hermit, the devoted family caretaker, the artistic innocent—but never before has he been presented for what he was: a brilliant, relentlessly serious artist whose stature has now reached monumental proportions.

Author : Slavko Goldstein
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176731
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning written by Slavko Goldstein and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Review Books Original The distinguished Croatian journalist and publisher Slavko Goldstein says, “Writing this book about my family, I have tried not to separate what happened to us from the fates of many other people and of an entire country.” 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning is Goldstein’s astonishing historical memoir of that fateful year—when the Ustasha, the pro-fascist nationalists, were brought to power in Croatia by the Nazi occupiers of Yugoslavia. On April 10, when the German troops marched into Zagreb, the Croatian capital, they were greeted as liberators by the Croats. Three days later, Ante Pavelić, the future leader of the Independent State of Croatia, returned from exile in Italy and Goldstein’s father, the proprietor of a leftist bookstore in Karlovac—a beautiful old city fifty miles from the capital—was arrested along with other local Serbs, communists, and Yugoslav sympathizers. Goldstein was only thirteen years old, and he would never see his father again. More than fifty years later, Goldstein seeks to piece together the facts of his father’s last days. The moving narrative threads stories of family, friends, and other ordinary people who lived through those dark times together with personal memories and an impressive depth of carefully researched historic details. The other central figure in Goldstein’s heartrending tale is his mother—a strong, resourceful woman who understands how to act decisively in a time of terror in order to keep her family alive. From 1941 through 1945 some 32,000 Jews, 40,000 Gypsies, and 350,000 Serbs were slaughtered in Croatia. It is a period in history that is often forgotten, purged, or erased from the history books, which makes Goldstein’s vivid, carefully balanced account so important for us today—for the same atrocities returned to Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s. And yet Goldstein’s story isn’t confined by geographical boundaries as it speaks to the dangers and madness of ethnic hatred all over the world and the urgent need for mutual understanding.

Author : Mary Clare McKinley
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396274
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of a Feather written by Mary Clare McKinley and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1953 and 1966, New York assemblage artist Joseph Cornell created more than twenty works in homage to Juan Gris, specifically inspired by the Cubist’s collage masterpiece, The Man at the Café(1914). Cornell’s Gris boxes have as their centerpiece the image of a bird, the great white-crested cockatoo, whose delightful and erudite connections to the Cubist’s oeuvre and to Cornell’s own hobbies, love of music, and distinctive approach to modern art are comprehensively documented here for the first time.

Author : Joseph Cornell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500282434
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind written by Joseph Cornell and published by . This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Cornell is a legendary yet living presence in American art. His famous boxes, with their ineffably perfect choice of elements -- the stuffed birds, the buttons and toys, the fragments of old theatrical posters, the poignant allusions to the worlds of the nineteenth-century ballet and opera -- are some of the most recognizable signatures in all of twentieth-century art.From this extended selection of his diaries and other written material, Cornell emerges as a deeply dedicated and conscious artist, though one whose personality was every bit as unusual as many had perceived. Cornell used his diaries as he used his boxes, to capture and preserve his passing feelings, his momentary urges, and his anguished hesitations. He was an incessant and brilliant recorder of his thoughts as he considered his art or traveled to New York to haunt the antiquarian bookstores and shops where he collected material for his boxes.We see here his deep immersion in French symbolist poetry and his intense interest in his surrealist contemporaries. We see also his plangent yearning for les sylphides, the fairies of the ballet world who seemed to be reincarnated for him in the form of waitresses, dancers, actresses, and shop girls in his own world. Cornell corresponded with an astonishing range of people including Parker Tyler, Marianne Moore, Tony Curtis, Robert Motherwell, and Susan Sontag. His letters were often sent in the form of collages, and several of them are reproduced in this book.

Author : Elena Karina Byrne
Publisher : Omnidawn
ISBN 13 : 9781632430953
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If This Makes You Nervous written by Elena Karina Byrne and published by Omnidawn. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical narrative poetry that responds to works of art. Elena Karina Byrne's fourth collection of poems offers what she describes as an homage to her art-immersed upbringing with poems that challenge perception as they create a dialogue between the speaker and sixty-six artists. Lyrical narratives unfold with psychological urgency and candor as they re-encounter each artist's unique oeuvre. The poems are as political as they are personal, mapping out the author's emotional, spatial, and gender orientations within the confines of our visual culture. Longing and loss prevail in If This Makes You Nervous, always leading the reader on winding paths that return to the bodily while balancing beauty and terror and what is seen and what remains invisible. If This Makes You Nervous is a devotional look at shifting identity that begins in a preteen's memory, moves through history's collective body, and ends with what is "connected and accounted for" in the imagination's relativistic measure of time.