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As a former curator and director of the Guggenheim, Diane Waldman knew Joseph Cornell well. This heavily illustrated book covers Cornell's entire career from his earliest surrealist-inspired collages to his return to collage before his death in 1972.
Survey of important works in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
"In 1912 Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso created the first papiers colles by gluing pieces of oak-grained faux bois wallpaper onto their drawings. In 1917 Marcel Duchamp selected a urinal, signed it R. Mutt, and presented it as an object of art under the title Fountain. In 1919 Kurt Schwitters began gathering scraps of rubbish and assembled them into a series of works that he titled Merz constructions. These acts represent three of the most significant achievements in twentieth-century art." "The definitive book on its subject, Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object offers a comprehensive and dynamic history of the mediums that revolutionized our ideas about the nature of art and influen...
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November 2003
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