Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (New York Review Books Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (829 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590174860 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 88 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He has received many literary awards for his poems and his translations, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. The Voice at 3 A.M., his selected later and new poems, was published in 2003 and a new book of poems My Noiseless Entourage came out in the spring of 2005. His new ebook fr
Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned. . Now in PaperbackIn Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists
If you are interested in Joseph Cornell this is a shnurse If you are interested in Joseph Cornell this is a collection of poems you might want to review from an acclaimed writer and poet. Interesting insight and interpretation of Cornell's assemblages. Fall in love when you hold it in your hand! Amazon Customer This adorable book is a pleasure to hold in the hand! 7.25" x 5" and bound in midnight blue cloth lettered in silver and with a Cornell image applied to the front cover it is the perfect size and shape for this group of appreciations and quotations from Joseph Cornell's notes by the poet Charles Simic. I'm in love! But it is only fair to admit that I was a beeg fan of the work of both men before I ever saw this volume. It would be a treasured gift for that quirky, discerning friend.. Teresa Bailey said Poet reflects on Artist. A wonderful writing assignment I was introduced to it graduate school was to write a poem about a work of art. Poet Charles Simic has written a poem, prose and wonderful reflections - an assemblage of words - on the life and work of surrealist assemblage artist Joseph Cornell and his boxes. This is a treasure of a book if one is acquainted first with the work of Joseph Cornell.
. Simic mingles biography and critical discussion with selections of writings from the artist's notebooks. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly It's hard to do justice to the charm and power of Joseph Cornell's boxes. Only seemingly random, Simic's approach develops both the plain detail of Cornell's life and illuminates the nature of his work. His reliance on collage, indifference to technical display, and Surrealist mining of private obsession make him very much a modern artist, yet his work also b