Joseph Cornell

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Joseph Cornell

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Games Joseph Cornell often used compartments and boxes to display items. Nature
Childhood Movie Stars Click on a theme to go to that page. Ballet
Collage Personal More info. Resources
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Games

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• Many of Joseph Cornells assemblages involve
  moving pieces and share similarities with old
  arcade games.

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Nature

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• Cornell used images of nature, often placing them
  in confined spaces.

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Movie Stars

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• Cornell collected images of movie stars he
  admired, and used them in his constructions.

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Ballet

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• Cornell greatly admired ballet, especially the
  dancers.

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Collage

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• He first began his career with collage. He often
  used Victorian style images.

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Childhood

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• Many images Cornell used refer back to childhood.

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Personal

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• Joseph Cornell was born in Nyack, New York on
  December 24, 1903. He lived with his brother and
  his mother until their deaths. He died on
  December 29, 1972.

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For more information visit

• http//www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cornell/
• http//search.moma.org/?qCornellq1The2BCollect
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• http//www.artic.edu/aic/collections/search/citi/a
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• http//www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?
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Resources

• The Information presented in this PowerPoint was
  adapted from The Essential Joseph Cornell by
  Ingrid Schaffner, ISBN 0-8109-5833-3
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