Best known for evocative box-constructions in which he assembled small objects and ephemera, the American surrealist Joseph Cornell (1903-72) was also a devoted fan of the cinema. He thrived on almost daily visits to movie theaters, amassed archives of films and film stills, created short motion pictures, and produced works honoring his favorite females movie stars. This book examines for the first time Cornell's "portrait-homages" to these actresses, Hedy Lamarr, Lauren Bacall, Greta Garbo, and Jennifer Jones, among others ...
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Best known for evocative box-constructions in which he assembled small objects and ephemera, the American surrealist Joseph Cornell (1903-72) was also a devoted fan of the cinema. He thrived on almost daily visits to movie theaters, amassed archives of films and film stills, created short motion pictures, and produced works honoring his favorite females movie stars. This book examines for the first time Cornell's "portrait-homages" to these actresses, Hedy Lamarr, Lauren Bacall, Greta Garbo, and Jennifer Jones, among others. Focusing on Cornell's "cinematic imagination" and the ways he adapted techniques of accumulation, collection, and juxtaposition to the art of portrayal, Jodi Hauptman argues that Cornell's movie star portraits are his most emblematic works. She shows how each portrait is inflicted by the star's personality, roles, and the moment of a particular film's release and how Cornell ultimately transforms each of his subjects. Hauptman also explores the links between collection and desire, contending that Cornell is both a surrealist and a historian: his accumulation of cast-offs echoes surrealism's infatuation with the found object while his attempts to rescue swiftly disappearing pasts reenact the historian's labor in the archive.
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250p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Mild soiling along the edge of the title page; otherwise clean and tight. The lamination is peeling off the front of the jacket; small closed tear at bottom of spine. Otherwise, jacket intact.
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Good. Size: 10x8x0; hardcover with dust jacket, full number line, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, ex-library copy with usual library markings, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.
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New Haven and London: Yale University Press (1999).
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1999
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English
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14759020445
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As New. Dust Jacket Included. First printing. 4to. Frontispiece photograph of Cornell. xiv, 250 pp. Illustrated in color and in B & W. Original navy blue cloth binding. This is a tight, fine book in a bright, fine DJ.
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Near Fine Plus in Near Fine Plus jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., two minute smudges to fore-edge. no other flaws-clean, no writing or markings, tight binding.; xiv-250pp., 108 illustrations in color, b/w. examines cornell's life-long deep interest in film and actresses.
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New. 0300078382. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--250 pages; 108 illustrations. --with a bonus offer--
