Article: Great Joseph Cornell Was Shadow Player, Christian Mystic.(Arts&Entertainment)

Byline: Hilton Kramer

To mark the centenary of the birth of Joseph Cornell (1903-72), Richard L. Feigen and Company has organized a superb exhibition of the artist's shadowbox constructions and collages, and in the same spirit of homage this show is accompanied by two very different tributes to Cornell's extraordinary career. One is a large, lavishly illustrated book called Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay ... Eterniday (Thames and Hudson, 272 pages, $60). The other is a smaller exhibition at Feigen and Company of collages and constructions by the late Ray Johnson (1927-95), an artist-friend who was Cornell's most devoted disciple.

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