Discover assemblage artist, author, sculptor Joseph Cornell

Qualifications: assemblage artist, author, sculptor, cinematographer, collagist, designer, painter, textile artist

Nationality/school: American

Born: Nyack (New York) 1903-12-24

Deceased: Flushing (New York) 1972-12-29

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Kusama, Yayoi

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2 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1925 - 1972
ca. 1925-1972

Education: Phillips of Andover Academy (Andover, Massachusetts)

studie Romaanse talen
autodidact

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Lawrence (Massachusetts) 1919
werkt hier als arbeider in een textielfabriek
New York City 1921 - 1929
werkzaam als textielhandelaar en stoffenverkoper in Manhatten
Flushing (New York) 1929 - 1972
Parijs 1938
door André Breton uitgenodigd voor de 'Exposition internationale du Surréalisme'
Parijs 1959

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Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: figure, nude figure, portrait, still life
surrealisme en fotografie

Medium/technique: wood
Product: sculpture, fabric designs

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Surrealism

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 18 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Cummings 1966 , p. 88
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 3, p. 174
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 66
Baigell 1979 , p. 78
Saur 1992- , vol. 11 (1999), p. 248

tent.cat. Amerikaanse schilderijen Collages, Groningen (Museum voor Stad en Lande) 5/11 tot 11/12-1966
Cat. tent. Parijs 1989 (zie RKDlibrary), p. 88-90
Ades, D.: Photomontage (1976, French ed.) (NFM)
Gaade's Kunstwijzer 1985 (NFM)
Greenough, Sarah a.o.: On the Art of fixing a Shadow. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (1989) (NFM)
Billeter, E.: Malerei und Photographie im Dialog (tent.cat. 1977) (NFM)
Deep Storage. Arsenale der Erinnerung (exg. cat. 1997) (NFM)

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Project: Dreaming of Holland

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