Untitled (Medici Princess).
Title
Untitled (Medici Princess) .
Creator
Cornell, Joseph (American sculptor and filmmaker, 1903-1972)
Date
1948?
Cultural Context
American North American
Style/Period
Modern (styles and periods) Modernist
Subject
Boxes Mixed media Allusions Reproductions Portraits Girls Children Princesses Boys Posing Children's clothing & dress Dresses Necklaces Jewelry Pendants (Jewelry) Hairstyles Drawers (Furniture components) Maps Games Game pieces Balls (Sporting goods) Toys Blocks (Toys)
Description
"Cornell's boxes of the 1940s and 1950s consisted of achingly melancholy juxtapositions of incongruously scaled objects implying temporal and spatial poetic leaps . A Victorian child's soap bubble set would be placed against a lunar map or a portrait of a Medici princess pasted in the interior of a would-be slot machine. " (Caption , p.47) ; "This genre ('assemblage') reached its apotheosis in William Seitz's exhibition 'The Art of Assemblage ", held at MOMA , New York , in 1961 . […] Seitz's curatorial recognition of what was dubbed a newly aestheticized 'urban collage environment ' led to several artistic rehabilitations in his catalogue for the show . […] Particularly significant was the inclusion of the reclusive Joseph Cornell , one of the few Americans to have responded inventively to Surrealism before the war . Over the years , Cornell had patiently constructed boxed miniaturized environments . Their claustrophobic interiors , brimming with allusions , from French Symbolist poetry to Hollywood film , echoed his lifestyle in the New York suburbs caring for a demanding mother and a crippled brother . Cornell's boxes represented a new artistic genre and were spiritualized counterweights to [Marcel] Duchamp's more materially oriented Boîte-en-Valise. " (Excerpt , p.47)
Material
Wood box with mixed media Wood (plant material) Mixed media Found objects
Measurements
44.5 x 11.4 cm
Technique
Assemblage (sculpture technique)
Work Type
Sculpture Assemblages (sculpture) Found objects Mixed media
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.46, fig.20)
Rights
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, Agnes Gund Collection. Photo courtesy Joseph Helman Gallery, NY.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC 827-11.jpg
Rating
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