Joseph Cornell. Worlds in a Box - ACE231.2

Views of New York, with emphasis on the railways. Some of Cornell’s hand-made boxes in a gallery. Lauren Bacall scrapbook and artworks. Caption: "with the writings of Joseph Cornell read by Tony Curtis." Curtis’s VO on Lauren Bacall, cinema and New York. Caption: Penny Arcade. Portrait of Lauren Bacall, 1946. Susan Sontag, Writer, talking about how Cornell must have spent hours going through junk shops looking for things to include in his work. Photograph of Cornell looking at sketch of Greta Garbo. Some of Cornell’s store of objects, bird cut-outs, feathers, Medici images, photographs, etc., with VO of Brian O’Doherty, Artist and Writer. O’Doherty talks about Cornell’s working methods and his "preservation of memory", and thus a "rearguard action against the decay of culture". Examples of Cornell’s boxes and details of the objects they contain. One box allows bells to be rung behind pictures of birds when a ball is dropped into it. VO Cornell’s words explaining what how a "box" could be defined. View over Manhattan. Railways. Photograph of Cornell. Street scenes. Book shop. O’Doherty talking about Cornell’s relationship with the city. Cornell’s house on Utopia Parkway. Cornell’s words VO. Photographs of interior during Cornell’s occupancy. Tony Curtis arriving at the house. Cornell’s words VO about earlier visit. Curtis talking about Cornell’s work, "compelling" rather than "likeable". Some of the boxes.