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Article: IN THE FRAME
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 13, 1994
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CopyrightCopyright 1994 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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When the American artist Joseph Cornell died in 1973, at the age
of 70, he was already renowned for his surreal and enigmatic boxes,
which one critic called "some of the most individual achievements
in the entire modernist canon". In an introductory essay to Theatre
of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters and Files (Thames & Hudson
pounds 24), Robert Motherwell lists Cornell's obsessions reflected
in his boxes' contents: "Birds and cages, empty cages, mirrors,
ballerinas and theater folk (living and dead), foreign cities,
Americana, Tom Thumb, Greta Garbo, Mallarme, Charlie Chaplin,
neglected children, charts of the stars, wineglasses, pipes, corks,
thimbles, indigo blue and milky white, ...
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