| Children's Stories and 'Child-Time' in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde Contributor(s): Leppanen-Guerra, Analisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 1409401561 ISBN-13: 9781409401568 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $188.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - General - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 709.2 |
| LCCN: 2010053011 |
| Series: Ashgate Studies in Surrealism |
| Physical Information: 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Focusing on his evocative and profound references to children and their stories, Children's Stories and 'Child-Time' in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde studies the relationship between the artist's work on childhood and his search for a transfigured concept of time. This study also situates Cornell and his art in the broader context of the transatlantic avant-garde of the 1930s and 40s. Analisa Leppanen-Guerra explores the children's stories that Cornell perceived as fundamental in order to unpack the dense network of associations in his under-studied multimedia works. Moving away from the usual focus on his box constructions, the author directs her attention to Cornell's film and theater scenarios, 'explorations', 'dossiers', and book-objects. One highlight of this study is a work that may well be the first artist's book of its kind, and has only been exhibited twice: Untitled (Journal d'Agriculture Pratique), presented as Cornell's enigmatic tribute to Lewis Carroll's Alice books. |