Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams

DianeWaldman

• Harry N. Abrams (2006年4月1日発売)

作品紹介・あらすじ

Joseph Cornell created a "poetic theatre of memory" from his fantasies. His box constructions and collages feature such characters as a Medici princess, birds, ballerinas, and movie stars. Using the seemingly commonplace materials that he collected such as cordial glasses, mirrors, marbles, and maps, along with clippings from books and magazines, childhood games, and Victorian illustrations, Cornell beckons us into a world at once distantly magical and nostalgically like home. Diane Waldman first met Cornell in 1963, when she was writing her master of fine arts' thesis on the subject of his art, and their friendship continued until his death. In this volume she probes Cornell's elusive imagery in his earliest Surrealist-inspired collages of the 1930s, his masterful box constructions of the 1940s and 1950s, his experimental films, and his final collages in his last years, adding to the analysis of his art her own personal knowledge. Cornell's universe of objects and images, vivid with half-remembered stories, reminds us ultimately of the strangeness of the familiar, the odd familiarity of the strange, and the final mysteriousness of the world we thought we knew.

感想・レビュー・書評

[kaoru-kogaさんの感想 · 2011年8月26日]

ボックスアートといえばジョセフ・コーネル！
その作品集の中でも手頃な値段のものです。
これは数年前にコーネルの作品が来ていた展覧会場で購入したもの。

箱の中で繰り広げられる様々な物体達の出会いの詩的現象とでも言おうか…。それはまさに箱庭でもあり、時にミニマルで、時に間合いの妙味も醸し出され、そこでは常に物の儚さ、結晶的な刹那を感じさせられます。

とても参考になる。見ていて飽きません。めくるめく創造欲をかきたてられます。

[モネコさんの感想 · 2009年6月29日]

洋書なのですが、コーネルのBoxAｒｔの作品がたくさん載っています。