Sunday, February 25, 2007

Six Objects in Search Of An Exhibition II


Joseph Cornell (1903-1972): Thinking Inside The Box




Untitled (Soap Bubble Set), 1936




Untitled (Paul and Virginia), c. 1946-48




L'Egypte de Mlle Cleo de Merode, cours élémentaire d'histoire naturelle, 1940




Untitled (Solar Set), c. 1956-58




Untitled (Medici Boy), 1942-52




Setting for a Fairytale, 1942


The Week in Review

Films:

A Hard Day's Night, 1964 - d. Richard Lester
Help!, 1965 - d. Richard Lester
Magical Mystery Tour, 1967 - d. Bernard Knowles
Yellow Submarine, 1968 - d. George Dunning
Let it Be, 1970 - d. Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Rebel Without a Cause, 1955 - d. Nicholas Ray
Bitter Victory, 1957 - d. Nicholas Ray

Television:

Smallville: Season Five

Books:

Joseph Cornell - ed. Kynaston McShine
Joseph Cornell: Art and Metaphysics - Sandra Leonard Starr
Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams - Diane Waldman
Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay, Eterniday - Lynda Roscoe Hartigan et. al.
Joseph Cornell's Vision of Spiritual Order - Lindsay Blair
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell - Deborah Solomon

Exhibitions:

Heroes and Villains: Australian Comics and their Creators - State Library of Victoria

Music:

Medulla, 2004 - Björk
Vespertine, 2001 - Björk
Homogenic, 1997 - Björk
Post, 1995 - Björk
Debut, 1993 - Björk

Bonus Quote


Magicians Of The Mundane




Joseph Cornell



'Every serious work of art contains two different lonelinesses. The first might be called "plastic loneliness", that is the beatitude of contemplation produced by the ingenious construction and combination of forms, whether they be still lifes come alive or figures become still - the double life of a still life, not as a pictorial subject but in its supersensory aspect, so that even a supposedly living figure might be included. The second loneliness is that of lines and signals; it is a metaphysical loneliness for which no logical training exists, visually or psychically.'

Giorgio de Chirico