Enchantments (eBook)

Joseph Cornell and American Modernism

Marci Kwon (Autor)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21502-0 (ISBN)

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The first major work to examine Joseph Cornell's relationship to American modernismJoseph Cornell (1903-1972) is best known for his exquisite and alluring box constructions, in which he transformed found objects-such as celestial charts, glass ice cubes, and feathers-into enchanted worlds that blur the boundaries between fantasy and the commonplace. Situating Cornell within the broader artistic, cultural, and political debates of midcentury America, this innovative and interdisciplinary account reveals enchantment's relevance to the history of American modernism.In this beautifully illustrated book, Marci Kwon explores Cornell's attempts to convey enchantment-an ephemeral experience that exceeds rational explanation-in material form. Examining his box constructions, graphic design projects, and cinematic experiments, she shows how he turned to formal strategies drawn from movements like Transcendentalism and Romanticism to figure the immaterial. Kwon provides new perspectives on Cornell's artistic and graphic design career, bringing vividly to life a wide circle of acquaintances that included artists, poets, writers, and filmmakers such as Mina Loy, Lincoln Kirstein, Frank O'Hara, and Stan Brakhage. Cornell's participation in these varied milieus elucidates enchantment's centrality to midcentury conversations about art's potential for power and moral authority, and reveals how enchantment and modernity came to be understood as opposing forces. Leading contemporary artists such as Betye Saar and Carolee Schneemann turned to Cornell's enchantment as a resource for their own anti-racist, feminist projects.Spanning four decades of the artist's career, Enchantments sheds critical light on Cornell's engagement with many key episodes in American modernism, from Abstract Expressionism, 1930s "e;folk art,"e; and the emergence of New York School poetry and experimental cinema to the transatlantic migration of Symbolism, Surrealism, and ballet.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.4.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 121 color + 82 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: Aaron Siskind • abstract expressionism • Aby Warburg • Alfred Barr • Alfred Stieglitz • Anecdote • Anthology Film Archives • A Parrot for Juan Gris • Art History • Arthur Dove • Assemblage • Avant-Garde and Kitsch • Ballets Russes • Barnett Newman • Bricolage • Carolee Schneemann • Cassiopeia 1 • Charles Egan Gallery • Charles Henri Ford • Christian Science • Clement Greenberg • cockatoo • Come Live With Me • Constantin Brâncu?i • contemporary Art • Copyright • Daguerreotype • Dance Index • Diary • Disenchantment • Donald Windham • Elie Nadelman • Emblem • Enchanted Wanderer • engraving • evocation • Fantastic Art • Fine Art • Folk Art • George Balanchine • George Platt Lynes • Georges Seurat • Getty Research Institute • Gilded Age • Giorgio de Chirico • Grace Hartigan • Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery • Harper's Bazaar • harpo marx • Henry Newbolt • Ideology • Illustration • Immanence • Isadora Duncan • Jackson Pollock • John Ashbery • John Donne • Joseph Cornell • Julien Levy • Kitsch • Lincoln Kirstein • Literary criticism • Literature • Lynn Garafola • Marcel Duchamp • Marianne Moore • Mark Rothko • Mary Baker Eddy • Matthew Josephson • Max Ernst • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Mina Loy • modernism • Modernity • MoMA • Mr. • narrative • Natural Philosophy • Odilon Redon • P. Adams Sitney • Parker Tyler • Pavel Tchelitchew • philadelphia museum of art • Philosopher • Photograph • photography • Poetry • popular culture • Princeton University Press • private collection • Publication • Realism (arts) • Robert Rauschenberg • Romantic ballet • Romanticism • Rudy Burckhardt • Silent Film • Smithsonian American Art Museum • Smithsonian Institution • Soap bubble • Soap Bubble Set • Sophistication • Special Collections • Stan Brakhage • Surrealism • Swan Lake for Tamara Toumanova • Symbolism (arts) • Taglioni’s Jewel Casket • theory • Tilly Losch • T. J. Clark (art historian) • Totalitarianism • Toward the Blue Peninsula • Transcendentalism • Wadsworth Atheneum • Wallace Stevens • Willem de Kooning • work of art • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21502-2 / 0691215022
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21502-0 / 9780691215020