Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell - Hardcover

Solomon, Deborah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374180121 ISBN 13: 9780374180126

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997

Synopsis

A portrait of American artist Joseph Cornell considers his unusual personality and reclusive lifestyle while examining his relationships with such contemporaries as Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, and Susan Sontag.

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Review:

"Deborah Solomon's admirable biography illuminates the life of the man without diminishing the mystery of his art." --New York Magazine

"A principal virtue of this biography . . . is that it challenges in a very authoritative way the received idea of Cornell as merely the timorous recluse, the marginal artist of Utopia Parkway."
--James R. Mellow, New York Times Book Review

"As perfectly composed, richly nuanced and quietly surprising as one of Cornell's boxes." --Donna Seaman, Chicago Tribune

"Deborah Solomon's clear-eyed and sympathetic narrative does for [Cornell's] life what he, as an artist, did for his penny world...It is a book about Cornell I would not dare to have hoped for in our mean and deconstructionist age." --Arthur C. Danto, Art Critic, The Nation

"Fascinating reading . . . Skillfully weaving together fact, anecdote, and conjecture, Solomon brings Cornell's place in the art world and his legacy to artists of the younger generation into sharp focus." --Allison Kemmerer, Boston Book Review

About the Author:

Deborah Solomon is the art critic for The Wall Street Journal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0374180121
• ISBN 13: 9780374180126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 426