Guggenheim | 1967 | Pdf | Eng | 55 pag | 6.6 MB

Catalogue of an exhibition selected and presented by Diane Waldman at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May-June 1967.

JOSEPH CORNELL cannot properly be called a painter or a sculptor for he makes neither paintings nor sculpture. He does make collages and boxes and does so with such knowledge and such capacity to have earned the designation artist in the fullest sense of this much diluted term.

As every artist does, Cornell translates his chosen raw material into forms and images. Translation here means to raise such materials from their commonplace existence to a meaningful state—one within which has been lodged a particular awareness so intense as to gain the broadest validity