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Joseph Cornell's Manual of Marvels: How Joseph Cornell Reinvented a French Agricultural Manual to Create an American Masterpiece Hardcover - 2012
by Dickran Tashjian (Editor); Analisa Leppanen-Guerra (Editor)
A fabulous facsimile of an almost unknown masterpiece by Joseph Cornell, presented in a box, along with a volume of essays and an interactive DVD. The book explains how Cornell reinvented a French agricultural manual to create an American masterpiece.
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- Title Joseph Cornell's Manual of Marvels: How Joseph Cornell Reinvented a French Agricultural Manual to Create an American Masterpiece
- Author Dickran Tashjian (Editor); Analisa Leppanen-Guerra (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 152
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Thames & Hudson, New York
- Date 2012
- ISBN 9780500516492 / 0500516499
- Weight 2.57 lbs (1.17 kg)
- Dimensions 10.78 x 8.21 x 2.18 in (27.38 x 20.85 x 5.54 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Art Aspects
- Dewey Decimal Code 709
Media reviews
Citations
- Choice, 05/01/2013, Page 0
- New York Times Book Review, 12/02/2012, Page 56
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New York: Thames & Hudsion / Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. Hardcover. VG+ lower corner of box is dented & creasing.. pictorial box w/ one hardcover & one softcover book. 1 compact disc. 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,…
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NY: Thames & Hudson, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 152 pages. A fabulous facsimile of an almost unknown masterpiece by Joseph Cornell, presented in a box, along with a volume of essays and an interactive DVDOne 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…
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