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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2021-01-29 01:15 pm
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Art: Joseph Cornell

In reading Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Curry, I discovered Joseph Cornell, an artist who made shadowboxes out of found objects. I find his work interesting. It appeals to the miniaturist as well as the poet. Wikipedia includes this quote about him. And links to haptic poetry from his page, which I like.

Somewhere in the city of New York there are four or five still-unknown objects that belong together. Once together they'll make a work of art. That's Cornell's premise, his metaphysics, and his religion...

If I ever go back to museums, I shall seek him out.