TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kwon,Marci
TI  - Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism 
SN  - 9780691215020
AV  - N6537.C66 K89 2021
U1  - 709.2 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Modernism (Art)
KW  - United States
KW  - ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - A Parrot for Juan Gris
KW  - Aaron Siskind
KW  - Alfred Barr
KW  - Cassiopeia 1
KW  - Charles Henri Ford
KW  - Christian Science
KW  - Cockatoo
KW  - Come Live with Me
KW  - Dance Index
KW  - Donald Windham
KW  - Enchanted Wanderer
KW  - George Balanchine
KW  - Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery
KW  - Jackson Pollock
KW  - Marcel Duchamp
KW  - Marianne Moore
KW  - Mary Baker Eddy
KW  - MoMA
KW  - Pavel Tchelitchew
KW  - Robert Rauschenberg
KW  - Soap Bubble Set
KW  - Stan Brakhage
KW  - Swan Lake for Tamara Toumanova
KW  - Taglioni’s Jewel Casket
KW  - Tilly Losch
KW  - Toward the Blue Peninsula
KW  - Willem de Kooning
KW  - assemblage
KW  - bricolage
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE The Great and the Small --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Enchantments --; Parts of a World --; Universe to Cosmos --; Folk into Myth --; Enchantresses --; Rooms and Skies --; Some Varieties of Enchantment --; NOTES --; INDEX --; CREDITS; restricted access
N2  - The first major work to examine Joseph Cornell's relationship to American modernismJoseph Cornell (1903–1972) is best known for his exquisite and alluring box constructions, in which he transformed found objects—such as celestial charts, glass ice cubes, and feathers—into enchanted worlds that blur the boundaries between fantasy and the commonplace. Situating Cornell within the broader artistic, cultural, and political debates of midcentury America, this innovative and interdisciplinary account reveals enchantment's relevance to the history of American modernism.In this beautifully illustrated book, Marci Kwon explores Cornell's attempts to convey enchantment—an ephemeral experience that exceeds rational explanation—in material form. Examining his box constructions, graphic design projects, and cinematic experiments, she shows how he turned to formal strategies drawn from movements like Transcendentalism and Romanticism to figure the immaterial. Kwon provides new perspectives on Cornell's artistic and graphic design career, bringing vividly to life a wide circle of acquaintances that included artists, poets, writers, and filmmakers such as Mina Loy, Lincoln Kirstein, Frank O’Hara, and Stan Brakhage. Cornell's participation in these varied milieus elucidate enchantment's centrality to midcentury conversations about art's potential for power and moral authority, and reveals how enchantment and modernity came to be understood as opposing forces. Leading contemporary artists such as Betye Saar and Carolee Schneemann turned to Cornell's enchantment as a resource for their own anti-racist, feminist projects.Spanning four decades of the artist's career, Enchantments sheds critical light on Cornell's engagement with many key episodes in American modernism, from Abstract Expressionism, 1930s "folk art," and the emergence of New York School poetry and experimental cinema to the transatlantic migration of Symbolism, Surrealism, and ballet
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691215020?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691215020
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691215020/original
ER  -