Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell

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Deborah Solomons definitive biography of Joseph Cornell one of Americas most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists now reissued twenty years later with updated and extensively revised text Few artists ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell the self-taught American genius prized for his enigmatic shadow boxes who stands at the intersection of Surrealism Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Legends about Cornell aboundthe shy hermit the devoted family caretaker the artistic innocentbut never before has he been presented for what he was: a brilliant relentlessly serious artist whose stature has now reached monumental proportions.