Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell’s Homage to Juan Gris

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An insightful have a look at of Joseph Cornell’s fascination with the Cubist painter Juan Gris, shedding new light on the work of both artists

Joseph Cornell first viewed Cubist painter Juan Gris’s The Man on the Café in October 1953. This visual encounter prompted Cornell to create more than a dozen hand-constructed shadow boxes as homages to Gris, every featuring a variation on a motif that echoes formal elements in Gris’s painting.  This unique book explores Cornell’s deep fascination with Gris, uncovering inside of Cornell’s work a couple of allusions to Gris’s a very powerful influence and investigating cross-currents such as the artists’ shared interests in French culture and the ballet.  Birds of a Feather yields a new point of view on Cornell’s famed boxes even as also shedding light on Gris’s painting, setting up points of connection between two key figures of the avant-garde who lived a generation apart.

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