Joseph Cornell. Worlds in a Box - ACE231.4

Photographs of Cornell’s store of cuttings, etc. VO O’Doherty. O’Doherty at the Joseph Cornell Study Center, in the National Museum of American Art, Washington: box of plastic balls (Rosenquist VO on Cornell’s working methods). Rosenquist. Boxes including one containing a wineglass and a marble, one with red powder. Woman riding bicycle; children in park. VO Cornell’s words on one of his dreams. Box containing nest. Collage with rabbit. Aeroplane coming into land. Cornell on New York City skyline and river; box inspired by this. Feather. Water’s edge. Box Ligne Ostende Douvres. Illustrations of plants and birds. Manhattan cityscape, in Cornell’s words a parallel to the spires and towers of Van Eyck’s Ghent altarpiece, The Adoration of the Lamb (Het Lam Gods, 1432). Photograph of Cornell; bookshop. Le Grand Meaulnes (1913) which Cornell liked very much. Ashton on Cornell’s liking for this book; she reads excerpt over shots of New York; talks about Alain Fournier. Book box containing red dust, spring, etc. House. Painting of New York at dusk. Early film items. Cornell’s words VO. Brakhage saying that Cornell used to buy films to entertain his brother, re-editing them once they’d both become bored by them.