Joseph Cornell’s Theater of the Mind (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph Cornell
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Diary, letters, and notebooks
- Time of Work: 1940-1972
- Setting: Flatbush, Queens, New York City
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary
- Subjects: France or French people, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Surrealism, Music or musicians, Art or artists, Obsession, Letters, Christian Science
- Locales: Queens, NY
In Joseph Cornell’s Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files, Mary Ann Caws, a distinguished American scholar of Dada and Surrealism, successfully performs the daunting task of shaping a representative and manageable selection out of the vast store of Cornell’s papers and other materials deposited in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art. Cornell was an energetic diarist and correspondent. Much of what this celebrated packrat accumulated, typically on visits to used bookshops such as those on Manhattan’s Fourth Avenue or the thrift shops...
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