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Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell

Born: December 24, 1903
Died: October 29, 1972
in Nyack, New York, USA
Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker. He was largely self-taught in his artistic efforts, and improvised his own original style incorporating cast-off and discarded artifacts. He lived most of his life in relative physical isolation, cared for his parents and his disabled brother at home, but remained aware of and in contact with other contemporary artists.

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Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Title: Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 29, 1991
Type: Movie
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This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He was also one of our great experimental filmmakers and once apparently made Salvador Dali extremely jealous at a screening of his masterpiece, Rose Hobart. In this film we get to hear people like Susan Sontag, Stan Brakhage, and Tony Curtis talk about their friendships with the artist. It turns out that Curtis was quite a collector and he seemed to have a very deep understanding of what Cornell was doing in his work.
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Cornell, 1965
Title: Cornell, 1965
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 28, 1978
Type: Movie
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Lawrence Jordan's portrait of the reclusive artist Joseph Cornell.
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