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	Artist Profile - Joseph Cornell, 20th Century American Sculptor, His Life and Work
		Joseph Cornell was born in 1903 in Nyack, New York.
		Cornell worked in the textile industry as a designer until 1940, and continued to make his boxes and collages, as well as a number of films.
		Cornell had no formal art training, and didn't draw or paint or sculpt in the traditional sense, however in the true sense, he was the very definition of artistic and creative - that is, an artist is one who takes materials and/or elements, and combines them in inventive and/or expressive ways.
	www.ndoylefineart.com /cornell.html (1553 words)

	Joseph Cornell Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was an American artist best known for his small collage boxes as well as for his experimental films.
		Joseph Cornell was born on December 24, 1903, in Nyack, New York, to parents descended from old Dutch families, his maternal grandfather being the wealthy and prominent Commodore William Voorhis.
		Cornell also made short, experimental films from the 1930s into the 1950s, an interest that sprung no doubt from his love for the cinema and from the film showings he frequently organized from his collection.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/joseph-cornell (904 words)

	Salon \| The man who brought things to life
		Cornell was born in 1903 to a well-bred, domineering mother and a father who was a textile salesman and designer.
		Instead of treating Cornell's sometimes creepy obsessiveness as an unpleasantness to be dealt with and whisked away, Solomon addresses it fearlessly -- and it's the only approach that makes sense, given how that obsessiveness not only ties into his work but, oddly enough, breathes life into it.
		Cornell's work underscored the significance of things in and of themselves, but it also clued us in to their weight and meaning in the context of one another -- and then in the context of our dreams as well.
	www.salon.com /march97/cornell970331.html (1288 words)

	Joseph Cornell's Vision of Spiritual Order by Lindsay Blair - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Joseph Cornell lived deeply inside a world of his own making--a world of melodious atmospheres, charmed static universes, and midnight rendezvous in long-forgotten hotels.
		Cornell's obsessively reflective state of mind is revealed through "The Floral Still-Life" section of the dossier, which focuses on a specific experience he had: while riding his bicycle in rural Flushing, Cornell was passed by a truck bearing the logo of a meat and fish company.
		Joseph Cornell was a true original who by using the artist's most profound gift--the ability to transform the surrounding world--created timeless works of provocative beauty.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/1998fall/cornell.shtml (701 words)

	Joseph Cornell
		While Cornell lived most of his life with his mother and invalid brother in a modest frame house (with a basement studio) on Utopia Parkway in Flushing, Long Island, he still managed to actively participate in the New York cultural world.
		Cornell was a genius in his ability to condense an series of tiny, unrelated objects into a magical intercon-nectedness.
		Cornell's fragmentary dream world is beautifully explored in an exceptional show that convincingly argues that his contribution to the art of assemblage and collage was enormous.
	artscenecal.com /ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1996/Articles1096/JCornell.html (670 words)

	Joseph Cornell
		To others, these deposits might be refuse, but to Cornell they were the strata of repressed memory, a jumble of elements waiting to be grafted and mated to one another.
		It is full of emblems of voyages Cornell never took, a little box of mummified waves and shrunken exotic coasts, peninsulas, planets, things set in compartments, with a drop-in panel containing twenty-one compasses, each with its needle pointing insouciantly in a different direction from that of its neighbor.
		Not for nothing did he call himself a 'constructivist.' Cornell was intensely Francophile, though he had never been to France - witness his many references to French provincial hotels, and even by the worn, comfy French colors of his box interiors, the ivory whites and pinks and faded blue-grays.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/C/cornell.html (704 words)

	Books \| Flights of fancy
		Thanks to his mother's insistence on education and belief in the arts, and to her numerous part-time jobs, Cornell was able to attend Phillips Academy in Andover from 1917 to 1919, where he studied, with no particular success, sciences and Romance languages.
		Cornell's birds were often world travellers who pasted collage remnants of their exploits on the walls of their cages: hotel paraphernalia, foreign newspaper clippings, European advertisements, theatre and dance programmes.
		Cornell continued making and exhibiting his poetic theatres, concentrating on such themes as ballet, astrology, mathematics, soap bubbles, Medici princes and princesses, hotels and children.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329484184-110738,00.html (1764 words)

	Joseph Cornell
		Joseph Cornell (1903-73) was an American artist; born in Nyack, N.Y. He is best known for his shadow boxes made of found objects, maps, photographs, engravings, and other materials.
		Preserved in Cornell's boxes are items as divergent as drinking glasses and a cork ball; a clay pipe and a diagram of the orbits of earth and the moon; images of a Medici Princess, each accompanied by a wooden sphere; and a translucent marble in a cascade of blue sand.
		Cornell fuses his work with poetic intensity, and a private and enigmatic sentiment, which together affect the viewer as if these very objects formed a recording of a burst of Cornell's sense of joy, or wonder, or love, or sadness.
	www.princetonol.com /groups/iad/lessons/middle/cornell.htm (762 words)

	Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Cornell - Biography
		Cornell’s early constructions of found objects were first shown in the group exhibition Surréalisme at Levy’s gallery in 1932.
		Cornell’s first two solo exhibitions took place at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932 and 1939, and they included an array of objects, a number of them in shadow boxes.
		Cornell retrospectives were held in 1967 at the Pasadena Art Museum and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
	www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_32.html (331 words)

	Film Love: Joseph Cornell
		Cornell seems to have edited these films into their basic shape as early as the late 1930s.
		After both shots, Cornell cuts to a crocodile entering the water, and though it couldn’t be the same place or time, one instantly fears for the safety of the smaller animals.) A lovely progression of giraffes from left to right and then egret from right to left closes the film.
		Dates for Cornell’s films are as given in P. Adams Sitney’s “The Cinematic Gaze of Joseph Cornell,” published in Joseph Cornell, edited by Kynaston McShine and published by the Museum of Modern Art, 1980.
	andel.home.mindspring.com /cornell_notes.htm (2661 words)

	Artists Past & Present: Joseph Cornell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Joseph Cornell’s process of collecting was about keeping things he bought, found, and liked.
		Cornell was born in 1903 in Nyack, New York.
		Cornell liked the magical quality of Surrealist art in the 1930s but shied away from the darker revolutionary fantasies of the art movement.
	edu.warhol.org /app_cornell.html (355 words)

	Amazon.com: Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams: Books: Diane Waldman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cornell's exquisite boxes, intimate constructions filled with found objects and collaged images, merit repeated visits just as poems call out to be read again and again, and each new Cornell book discloses something fresh and illuminating about this most magnetic and lyrical of artists.
		Joseph Cornell was a unique artist and one whose impact on all forms of art (especially the eventual 'installation art' phase) is yearly more appreciated.
		Cornell was terribly timid in front of women (particularly the ones he fancied) and had a complete dependence on his mother (he died months after she did).
	www.amazon.com /Joseph-Cornell-Master-Diane-Waldman/dp/0810912279 (1405 words)

	Sharing Nature Foundation - Joseph Cornell
		Joseph Cornell's book Journey to the Heart of Nature was commissioned by the World Scouts in Geneva, Switzerland as a guide for young adults, to help them discover the natural love of the Earth that hides in every human heart.
		Joseph Cornell earned his B.S. degree in Nature Awareness from California State University, Chico in 1973, and an M.S. degree in Nature Awareness from the University of the Trees in Boulder Creek, California in 1979.
		Joseph and his wife, Anandi, are ordained ministers and long-time residents of Ananda Village, an intentional community located in the beautiful foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in northern California.
	www.sharingnature.com /JosephCornell.html (687 words)

	Joseph Cornell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Many of the objects inside the box reflect signs of age and decay: for example, the goblet and the clay pipe are broken, the paint is cracked and peeling, and small nails protrude in many areas.
		The paper on the outside is yellowed, reflecting Cornell’s concern that even the written word cannot survive the passage of time and successfully preserve the past.
		Cornell’s diaries, along with his boxes, were created to capture his feelings, momentary thoughts, and uncertainties about life.
	www.albrightknox.org /ArtStart/Cornell.html (621 words)

	The Baseball Reliquary - Joseph Cornell
		Miraculously, and even magically, the self-taught American artist, Joseph Cornell, achieved this with his intimate box constructions and collages.” In 2000, the Baseball Reliquary announced the acquisition of a photo collage believed to have been executed by Joseph Cornell (1903-1972).
		Cornell introduced often startling subject matter into the collages of this period, including the first openly erotic images of his career and, with this discovery, the first use of baseball as a thematic element.
		Cornell was, in fact, almost compulsively focused on children, to the point of presenting, in 1972, what was probably the first avant-garde art exhibition in New York for children only.
	www.baseballreliquary.org /JosephCornell.htm (520 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		To call Cornell a realist may seem to play with words, but, in the root sense that a realist is an artist preoccupied with the world he finds rather than with the world he wants, Cornell is on the side of the real.
		The great tragedy of Cornell's life was the plight of his younger brother Robert, who came down with a crippling form of cerebral palsy when he was only one, and whom Cornell took care of for the rest of his life.
		Cornell's appetite and discerning eye for the street around him appears everywhere in the diaries he kept in the forties and fifties, many of which were beautifully annotated and illustrated in Mary Ann Caws's 1993 anthology "Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind," a really golden book.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/atlarge/?030217crat_atlarge (3296 words)

	Joseph Cornell
		Born in 1903 in Nyack, New York, Joseph Cornell was the oldest of four children, two girls and two boys.
		By the age of 18, Joseph Cornell was working as a fabric salesman for a textile firm.
		Joseph Cornell died there in 1972, and his will established a foundation for charitable grants from the sales of his art.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/american_artists/67266 (460 words)

	Collezione Peggy Guggenheim - Artisti - Joseph Cornell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Joseph Cornell was born on December 24, 1903, in Nyack, New York.
		Cornell’s early constructions of found objects were first exhibited in Surrealism, presented at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford and subsequently at Julien Levy’s gallery 10 1932.
		Cornell’s first solo exhibition took place at the Julian Levy Gallery 10 1939 and included an array of objects, a number of them in shadow boxes.
	www.guggenheim-venice.it /italiano/06_artisti/cornell.htm (375 words)

	HEDONIA - Joseph Cornell
		It was for the amusement of his brother that Cornell began making little assemblages in boxes, in the early 1930s.
		Cornell loved many women, but as far as is known, only from afar.
		Suffice it to say that his work reveals ever more meaning and delight with each viewing, and that he deserved to be regarded in his lifetime as a creator equal in stature to any of the greatest artists of his time.
	hedonia.net /art/cornell.htm (401 words)

	Online NewsHour: Joseph Cornell-- December 30, 1997
		Cornell put common objects inside boxes, but, for him, they were also charged with the power of relics.
		Cornell then moved the family to this house in Queens, where Joseph would live with his mother and brother until their deaths in the mid 1960's through to the end of his own life in 1972.
		But Joseph Cornell was clearing the trail half a century ago as many of his contemporaries acknowledged.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/artbox_12-30.html (1678 words)

	SFMOMA \| Exhibitions \| Joseph Cornell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Joseph Cornell: Private Constellations is organized by Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas chief curator and curator of painting and sculpture; Janet Bishop, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation associate curator of painting and sculpture; and Kelly Purcell, curatorial assistant for painting and sculpture.
		American artist Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972) became widely recognized for his enigmatic box constructions, six of which are included in the Cornell Foundation gift.
		Cornell also incorporated childhood drawings by his brother Robert into some of his collages, highlighting an autobiographical element of his work.
	www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail/97_exhib_joseph_cornell.html (244 words)

	neurodiversity.com \| joseph cornell
		Cornell was born in Nyack, New York and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
		Later Cornell did a number of assemblages in homage to his friend Duchamp, and they were discovered after Cornell's death in 1972.
		Since his death, in 1972, it is not so much that Cornell's fame has grown, which is what happens when critics water a reputation, as that his work has become part of the living body of art, which is what happens when artists eat it.
	www.neurodiversity.com /bio_cornell.html (466 words)

	girish: Joseph Cornell
		Joseph Cornell is sometimes cited as the foremost American Surrealist artist but he was never a card-carrying member of the movement, but instead more of a fellow traveler.
		Cornell is known primarily for his collages and his assemblages (glass-fronted “shadow boxes”).
		Cornell was a devoted collector of 'small things' all his life, often objects that he found in junk-shops; he employed these objects in his art.
	www.girishshambu.com /blog/2006/08/joseph-cornell.html (7764 words)

	Flights of fancy \| MetaFilter
		Joseph said she was from the neighborhood and came to help him with housework.
		Joseph's pedophilia was well known to the numerous adults who talked about it at Park Avenue parties over their Boeuf Bourguignon and chocolate mousse and to those who used us in order to obtain his art.
		Knowing that Joseph used a bird, as others have done, as a symbol for penis may add another dimension to understanding his many art works which used the bird theme, particularly those in which little girls are depicted.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/51804 (6416 words)

	Joseph Cornell \| American Surrealist \| Hollis Taggart Galleries
		A central difference between Cornell and the Surrealists was Cornell’s disinterest in dream theories or in exploring the subconscious—the foundation of Surrealism.
		By the mid-1930s, Cornell started creating his signature shadow box constructions, which he described as “poetic theatres or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime.” The shadow boxes continued to be his primary focus through the 1940s.
		Cornell was included in the 1961 exhibition “The Art of Assemblage” at the Museum of Modern Art, where he had an entire room devoted to his art.
	www.hollistaggart.com /artists/cornell.htm (531 words)

	Joseph Cornell Art Minimal & Conceptual Only
		When an artist such as Joseph Cornell takes images and ideas from the realm of science, we are tempted to look for the concepts that may have tied them together in his mind.
		Together, Cornell's paradoxical juxtaposition of ancient constellations and the steel rods and balls of more modern scientific study allude to our universal tendency to retain ancient modes of thought while conceding that science continues to advance our understanding of the workings of our universe.
		Cornell's constructions bring into focus the difference between the ancient worlds of appearance and the abstract and often strange world of modern scientific theory.
	home.sprynet.com /sprynet/mindweb/cornellpage2.htm (999 words)

	Joseph Cornell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cornell's boxes make us think about the past because the objects look old: the goblet (glass) and the white clay pipe are broken; the paint is peeling; the newspaper is yellowed; and nails stick out in a number of places.
		Cornell refers to a time in the past known as the Victorian era (named after Queen Victoria of England, who ruled from 1837-1901).
		Cornell combined objects in the ways that he did, and his boxes make us use our imaginations as we try to figure out the little worlds he has created.
	www.albrightknox.org /ArtStart/sCornell.html (286 words)

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