Utopia Parkway
Subtitle: the life and work of Joseph Cornell
By: Deborah Solomon
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9781590517147
Subjects: Biography; Artists
Description: "Deborah Solomon's definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America's most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued ten years later 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"--
Notes: Previous edition: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Combination ticket entitles bearer to ... ":1903-17; title: Dreaming of Houdini: 1917-21; title: Life of a salesman: 1921-28; title: The Julien Levy gallery: 1929-32; title: The persistent memory of Salvador Dali: 1933-36; title: Introducing the neo-romantics: 1937-39; title: A night at the ballet: 1940-41; title: Voices abroad: 1942; title: Bebe Marie, or visual possession: 1943-44; title: The Hugo gallery: 1945-49; title: The aviaries:1949; title: The egan years: 1950-53; title: The birds: 1954-55; title: The stable gallery: 1956-57; title: Breakfast at Bickford's: 1958-59; title: Pop goes the art world: 1960-63; title: The life and death of Joyce Hunter: 1964; title: Goodbye, Robert: 1965; title: Goodbye Mrs. Cornell: 1966; title: The Guggenheim show: 1967; title: "Bathrobe journeying": 1968-71; title: "Sunshine breaking through": 1972.