Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (New York Review Books Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (827 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590174860 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 88 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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If you are interested in Joseph Cornell this is a If you are interested in Joseph Cornell this is a collection of poems you might want to review from an acclaimed writer and poet. Interesting insight and interpretation of Cornell's assemblages. "Fall in love when you hold it in your hand!" according to Amazon Customer. This adorable book is a pleasure to hold in the hand! 7.25" x 5" and bound in midnight blue cloth lettered in silver and with a Cornell image applied to the front cover it is the perfect size and shape for this group of appreciations and quotations from Joseph Cornell's notes by the poet Charles Simic. I'm in love! But it is only fair to admit that I was a beeg fan of the . Poet reflects on Artist Teresa Bailey A wonderful writing assignment I was introduced to it graduate school was to write a poem about a work of art. Poet Charles Simic has written a poem, prose and wonderful reflections - an assemblage of words - on the life and work of surrealist assemblage artist Joseph Cornell and his boxes. This is a treasure of a book if one is acquainted first with the work of Joseph Cor
He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. . The Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005. He has published twenty collections of his own poetry, five books of essays, a memoir, and numerous of books of translations. His new ebook from New York Review Boo
Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned. . Now in PaperbackIn 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
His reliance on collage, indifference to technical display, and Surrealist mining of private obsession make him very much a modern artist, yet his work also brings to mind bourgeois parlors, the tidy vitrines of collectors, and the odds and ends children carry around for comfort and distraction. And that art, as Simic sees it, gathers from the scattered pieces of the American past a new, redeeming reality; at heart, this art is a religious practice. It is an art at once hermetic and matter-of-fact, sophisticated and simple. . Only seemingly random, Simic's approach develops both the plain detail of Cornell's life and illuminates the nature of his work. Illustrations. From Publishers Weekly It's hard to do justice to the charm and power of Joseph Cornell's boxe