Volume 47, Number 7 · April 27, 2000
Forgotten Games
By Charles Simic
Joseph Cornell: Stargazing in the Cinema
by Jodi Hauptman
Yale University Press, 250 pp., $40.00
Joseph Cornell, who died in 1972, has turned out to be one of the most admired American artists of the last fifty years. While he was certainly known in the New York art world by the late 1940s and his name and an occasional reproduction of his work may have been seen in a book devoted to Surrealist art, his fame and wealth never approached that of a great many of his contemporaries. The boxes now on display in this country's biggest museums could still be bought for as little as $250 in the early 1950s.
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