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JOSEPH CORNELL'S MANUAL OF MARVELS: HOW JOSEPH CORNELL REINVENTED A FRENCH..
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A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- INTERACTIVE CD
- Features
- A HARD COVER BOOK AND A SOFT COVER BOOK
- ISBN
- 9780500516492
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
ISBN-10
0500516499
ISBN-13
9780500516492
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114225977
Product Key Features
Book Title
Joseph Cornell's Manual of Marvels : How Joseph Cornell Reinvented a French Agricultural Manual to Create an American Masterpiece
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Mixed Media
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2.2 in
Item Weight
40.2 Oz
Item Length
10.9 in
Item Width
8.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-932587
Dewey Edition
23
Number of Volumes
2 vols.
Dewey Decimal
709.2
Synopsis
One of Joseph Cornell's favorite pastimes was to meander through the used bookstalls of lower Manhattan, sorting through old books, magazines, postcards, photos, and other ephemera in search of items to spark his creative impulses. Sometime in the early 1930s he came upon the Journal d'Agriculture Practique (Volume 21, 1911), a voluminous handbook of advice for farmers. Though he was very much an urban creature, he adored French culture of that period, and the book was filled with charming black and white engraving and photographs of pigs, horses, vegetables, and farm machinery. Over time Cornell altered and reinvented many of the pages in the Journal. He inserted collages, photomontages, and occasional drawings; he crossed out words in the text and made French puns with others. Hand-colored engravings, cutouts, and lift-ups intricately transport the reader from page to page. The dazzling elegance of Cornell's work on the Journal has rarely been viewed. It was discovered in his basement studio soon after his death in 1972 and is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Due to its fragility, the work is not well known, even among Cornell scholars. Now, in a unique venture, sixty of the most extraordinary pages have been re-created in virtual facsimile, with cutouts, glue-ons, and other unique handmade details. Included in a specially designed box are a DVD of the entire work, including pop-up commentaries, and a volume of illustrated essays on the Journal and Cornell's artistic practice., One of Joseph Cornell s favorite pastimes was to meander through the used bookstalls of lower Manhattan, sorting through old books, magazines, postcards, photos, and other ephemera in search of items to spark his creative impulses. Sometime in the early 1930s he came upon the Journal d Agriculture Practique (Volume 21, 1911), a voluminous handbook of advice for farmers. Though he was very much an urban creature, he adored French culture of that period, and the book was filled with charming black and white engraving and photographs of pigs, horses, vegetables, and farm machinery. Over time Cornell altered and reinvented many of the pages in the Journal. He inserted collages, photomontages, and occasional drawings; he crossed out words in the text and made French puns with others. Hand-colored engravings, cutouts, and lift-ups intricately transport the reader from page to page. The dazzling elegance of Cornell s work on the Journal has rarely been viewed. It was discovered in his basement studio soon after his death in 1972 and is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Due to its fragility, the work is not well known, even among Cornell scholars. Now, in a unique venture, sixty of the most extraordinary pages have been re-created in virtual facsimile, with cutouts, glue-ons, and other unique handmade details. Included in a specially designed box are a DVD of the entire work, including pop-up commentaries, and a volume of illustrated essays on the Journal and Cornell s artistic practice.", The extraordinary, little-known masterpiece by the great American artist Joseph Cornell - an entrancing tour de force Produced in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this unique 'Cornell box' contains: * a facsimile volume, with cutouts, collages and tip-ins * the story behind the work in an illustrated volume of essays * an interactive CD of the complete original book Joseph Cornell loved to meander through Manhattan's secondhand bookstalls and antiquarian shops in search of books, old documents, and faded photographs. One day, he came upon a French agricultural manual, the Journal d'Agriculture Pratique , from 1911. He took it home and began to work on the book, making cutouts through which one could view collaged elements, inserting images from old photographs, and tipping-in classic paintings and transparent overlays. In the process, Cornell reinvented the French manual as an American masterpiece., A fabulous facsimile of analmost unknown masterpieceby Joseph Cornell, presented ina box, along with a volume ofessays and an interactive DVD
LC Classification Number
N6537
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