Joseph Cornell's Manual of marvels : how Joseph Cornell reinvented a French agricultural manual to create an American masterpiece.
Leppanen-Guerra, Analisa.
Tashjian, Dickran,1940-
Ades, Dawn.
Cornell, Joseph.
New York : Thames & Hudson ; Philadelphia, Pa. : [Published] in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
2012.
"Joseph Cornell's Manual of marvels introduces one of Joseph Cornell's most brilliant yet least-known works. The 'Untitled book object : Journal d'agriculture pratique et journal de l'agriculture,' as the work is formally known, is extremely fragile ... Our ambition has been to make the entire work accessible. To that end, Joseph Cornell's Manual of marvels includes an interactive CD that will allow the reader to explore the entire book; a collection of essays about Cornell and the making of the Untitled book object; and an abridged facsimile edition of the book."--[Vol. 2], p. 5.
Title from cover of presentation box.
Includes facsimile volume ; book of illustrated essays ; interactive CD. All items issued in a presentation box (28 x 21 x 6 cm.).
Facsimile volume has die cut pages and tipped in items.
Interactive CD. Windows installation: Will run on any PC with a Pentium 4 processor or better running Windows XP or better. Macintosh installation: Will run on any Intel processor Macintosh running OS X or better.
"Joseph Cornell's Manual of marvels introduces one of Joseph Cornell's most brilliant yet least-known works. The 'Untitled book object : Journal d'agriculture pratique et journal de l'agriculture,' as the work is formally known, is extremely fragile ... Our ambition has been to make the entire work accessible. To that end, Joseph Cornell's Manual of marvels includes an interactive CD that will allow the reader to explore the entire book; a collection of essays about Cornell and the making of the Untitled book object; and an abridged facsimile edition of the book."--[Vol. 2], p. 5.
Includes bibliographical references.
[v. 1]. Facsimile -- [v. 2]. Essays / edited by Analisa Leppanen-Guerra and Dickran Tashjian ; essays by Dickran Tashjian, Dawn Ades, Analisa Leppanen-Guerra.
Cornell, Joseph.
Assemblage (Art)
Surrealism
Artists' books.