Interviews with Cornell and his family, and access to the artist's letters and papers, inform Diane Waldman's text as she probes the elusive imagery of his work. This illustrated volume covers Cornell's entire career from the surrealist-inspired collages to his return to collage before his death.
Joseph Cornell created a poetic theatre of memory from his fantasies. This volume probes Cornell's imagery in his earliest Surrealist-inspired collages of the 1930s, his box constructions of the 1940s and 1950s, his experimental films, and his final collages in his last years.
Pioneer of abstract colour painting, Mark Rothko's immigrant childhood, student days at Yale, his early career, and his crucial role in the development of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, are all documented here and the progression of his work analysed.