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Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars

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Abbott Academy, 10

Adams, Walter S., 95

Adlow, Dorothy, 21–22

Agassiz, Louis, 46–47

American Bible Society, 157

Americana Fantastica (View, 1943), 76, 89, 90–91, 103, 106–7, 107, 117

Archimedes, 98, 165–69, 275n21

Arcturus (star of Boötes), 15

Aristarchus of Samos (Alexandrian astronomer), 165

and heliocentric universe, 165

Arp, Jean, 20

Astronomie des Dames (J. J. Grandville, 1849), 94

astronomy, public interest in, 9, 12, 53, 59, 104, 220

Aurélia (Gérard de Nerval), 42–44, 257n35

Bacall, Lauren, 43–44, 281n112

Bacon, Francis, 40, 186, 251n35

De Augmentis Scientiarum [The Advancement of Learning, 1623], 40, 186

Balanchine, George, 73–74

Balustrade (Balanchine ballet, 1941), 74, 79

Barr, Alfred, Jr., 19, 27, 29, 32, 246n24, 247n2, 248n6

Bataille, Georges, 20

Bellmer, Hans, 28

Bible House (Astor Place, New York), 156, 156–57, 273n79

“Big Bang” theory, 38

Big Dipper. See constellations, Ursa Major

Blondin (Jean François Gravelet), 99, 103, 111, 115, 117, 261n14, 263n24

Childhood of Blondin (nineteenth-century print), 89

Bohr, Niels, 173, 276n37

Borman, Frank, 211

Boys Blowing Bubbles (Jacob van Oost, 1645), 51

Boys, Charles Vernon, 30–31, 248n9

Brancusi exhibition (Brummer Gallery), 22

Breton, André, 20, 46, 49, 251n39

Brummer Gallery, 22, 246n34

Bunsen, Robert, 15

Burritt, Elijah, Atlas of the Heavens (1825), 3, 108, 125, 133, 269n34, 271n58

Geography of the Heavens (1856), 6, 80

Camfield, William, 15, 17

Campbell, William W., 95

Cannon, Dr. Annie Jump, 93

Celestial Theater (Payne-Gaposchkin), 153

Cerrito, Fanny, 2

Chien Andalou, Le (film), 20

child astronomer (Berenice). See Cornell, Joseph, works, Crystal Cage [portrait of Berenice]

Children’s Party. See Cornell, Joseph, works, Children’s Party trilogy

Christian Science Building, New York World’s Fair (1939), 51

Christian Science Monitor, 54, 66, 67, 80, 82–83, 85, 110–11, 121, 139–40, 155, 159, 170, 178–79, 188, 200, 208, 233–35, 245n15

Colon, Jenny (actress, Nerval infatuation with), 43

Comrade X (film, 1940), 79

Comte de Lautréamont. See Ducasse, Isidore

Coney Island at Night (brochure), 101

Coney Island. See Luna Park (Coney Island, New York)

constellations

—Andromeda, 8, 217, 224, 227

mythological character, 132, 140, 142, 156, 224–25, 237

nebula/galaxy, 80, 81, 83, 104, 143, 144–45, 271n49

—Aquila, 188, 200, 222, 224

—Aries, 224

—Auriga, 8, 98, 140, 146, 156, 237; 8

box, 146–47, 151, 153

as Good Shepherd, 146, 156, 271n58, 272n75

mythological character, 8, 108, 271n5

—Boötes, 12, 14, 14–15, 103, 103–4, 108, 230, 237, 272n75

—Camelopardalis, 132–33, 135, 146–47, 197–98, 238, 270n36

—Canis Major, 222

—Canis Minor, 108, 123, 125, 222, 238

—Cassiopeia, 9, 95–96, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108–9, 174, 177, 181, 197, 217, 220, 222, 237, 261n9, 277n46, 277n48, 284n36, 285n57

collages, 222, 286n64

mythological character, 80, 104

—Cepheus, 80, 104, 106, 135–36, 197–98, 258n47, 272n75

—Colomba, 116

—Coma Berenices, 72, 102, 104, 108, 111–12

—Custos Messium, 135, 197–98, 205, 224, 238, 241

—Cygnus, 71, 87, 98, 104, 106, 108, 116, 237

—Delphinius, 224

—Equuleus, 107, 107–8

—Gemini, 3, 98, 104, 106, 123, 212, 237–38

—Lyra, 83

Vega (star), 237

—Mons Menalus (Mountain of Menalus), 14

—Noctua, 116, 222

—Orion, 67, 103, 103–4, 108, 123, 134, 175, 177, 179–80, 237–38

collage, 154

nebula, 76, 83, 162, 175, 177

—Pegasus, 106, 107, 108, 217, 264n30

—Perseus, 80, 106–7, 142, 194, 197, 224, 237, 264n30

—Pyxis Navis, 163

—Sagitta, 224

—Taurus, 12, 103, 103–4, 123, 175, 177, 179–80, 237

Hyades, 60

Pleiades, 83, 237

—Telescopium Herschellii, 3, 269n34

—Triangulum, 224

—Turdus Solitarius, 116

—Ursa Major, 12, 67, 98, 104, 108, 192

Big Dipper, 67, 130, 192, 237, 256–57n31

—Ursa Minor, 135, 198

Copernicus, Nicolas, 1, 25, 31, 42, 115, 159–61, 182

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, 160

heliocentric universe theory, 160–61

observation tower of, 161

Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, 29, 54, 56, 121, 160

Cornell, Elizabeth (Betty), sister, 10, 132, 266n60

Cornell, Joseph; and actresses, 1, 26, 43, 58, 79, 104, 140, 186, 197, 200, 205–6, 220, 223–24, 281n112

assemblage boxes of, 1, 3, 40, 205

astronomical charts in works of, 150, 175

astronomy and science book collecting, 2–36, 44, 114

astronomy and science books in works of, 1–3, 4–5, 6, 8–12, 15, 18, 20, 30–32, 35–37, 40, 70–71, 117, 123, 125, 137, 146, 155, 159, 175, 184, 221, 248–49n9

astronomy in the works of, 1–3, 8–9, 11, 23, 27, 29–30, 46, 53, 56–57, 67, 70, 73–74, 76, 87–89, 98, 109, 112, 114–15, 120, 127, 137–38, 149, 159–61, 163–65, 175, 185, 200–205, 207, 224, 231–32, 234, 282n13

and avant-garde art, 11, 22, 27, 57, 89, 119–20, 130, 132, 175, 203, 215

ballerinas, fascination with, 1–2, 48, 53, 69, 73, 74, 76, 102, 108, 228

celestial atlases, maps, and constellation charts in the works of, 3, 12, 89, 106, 108, 117, 163, 223, 233, 265n37

celestial navigation, interest in, 53, 121, 190, 192–93, 205, 210, 234, 281–82n115

celestial sand boxes of, 165–67, 169, 171–72, 174, 192, 274n19, 276n34

childhood of, 42, 99, 123, 281n112

children and childhood games in the works of, 1–3, 6, 29–30, 34, 42, 46, 60, 89, 113–14, 123, 125, 128, 155, 169, 179, 196–97, 200, 205, 207, 216, 237, 246n31, 252n6o, 254n15, 256n30, 264n31 (see also works, The Children’s Party Trilogy; Crystal Cage [portrait of Berenice])

and Christian Science, 24–25; 44–47, 93, 103, 106, 111, 154–56, 163, 169, 188, 196, 207–8, 219, 234–35, 247n, 250n22, 263n24, 280–81n108

circus in the works of, 67, 69–73, 99–100, 103–4, 108, 117, 154, 256–57n31, 263n35

clipping files of, 3, 4–5, 10, 15, 18, 20–21, 32–33, 49, 92, 95, 100, 112–13, 115, 117, 119, 124, 130, 137, 151, 154–55, 159, 167, 170, 170–71, 179, 182, 186, 196, 201, 204, 207–8, 213, 217, 222, 224, 230, 235, 244n4, 248n9, 261n10, 261n14, 262n19, 265n37, 267n61, 267n4, 268n12, 268–69n24, 270n36, 270n39, 272n73, 275n23, 284n36

collages, creation of, by, 1–2, 6, 9–12, 14–15, 17–19, 24, 27, 35, 42–43, 48, 57–59, 67, 73–74, 76, 79–80, 82, 85–86, 89, 96–97, 101, 103–4, 106, 107, 108, 110, 112, 117, 120, 125, 140, 141, 142, 149, 154, 175, 194, 196, 200–202, 205, 206, 207–9, 209, 210, 211, 212–14, 214 216, 216–20, 221, 222–23, 224, 225, 226–28, 229–30, 231, 231–35, 236–37, 238, 239

and communism, 19, 182, 201

the cosmos in the art of, 1–3, 7–8, 10–11, 14–15, 19, 23, 26, 37, 44, 46, 49–50, 52, 55, 57, 60, 67, 71–73, 79, 81–84, 87, 95, 101, 108, 119, 127–28, 132, 149, 153–55, 158, 160, 164, 166, 172, 175, 180, 185, 188, 190–92, 197, 201, 205, 211, 217, 234–35, 274n20, 283n16

creative process of, 2, 9, 12, 18, 20–21, 29, 43, 50, 89, 109, 112, 121

critics and, 56, 159

“chi-chi infantalism,” 56

cross-indexing process in the art of, 1–26, 30, 33, 44, 50, 59, 71, 106, 121, 169, 173, 186, 208, 217–19

custodian boxes of, 197, 224, 281n12

diary, 1, 9, 11, 20, 24, 43, 50, 72, 78, 98, 108, 113, 117, 120–21, 123, 125, 132, 135, 138, 140, 144, 151, 153–54, 157, 159, 168, 179–82, 196, 201, 203–5, 207–8, 217–20, 223, 238, 239, 243n, 253n7, 263n21

education of, 2, 10

education at Phillips Academy, 10, 40, 93

fairy tales in the work of, 48, 53, 85, 254n15

and father’s death, 10

film works of, 56–73, 98, 123, 135–36, 145, 156, 253n7, 254n15, 255n22, 256n30, 262n19, 281n112

final years of, 237–38, 241

and found-footage films, 1, 73

gender uncertainty of, 48

health, effects of his work on, 287n85

homosexual community, friendship with, 48

infinity, fear of, 10

and mother, 208, 229, 234

and mother’s death, 202, 204, 206, 208

movie/film stars, in the work of, 24, 48, 57–88, 281n112 (see also individual actresses)

Natural Philosophy materials in the works of, 2–3, 10, 31–32, 37, 40–41, 46, 50, 52, 71, 83

observatories in the work of, 49, 61–62, 64, 69, 72–73, 83, 92–94, 97–101, 109, 111–13, 115, 121–23, 125–28, 132–35, 140–42, 145–46, 149, 151, 154, 156, 159, 177, 205, 208, 256n30, 268n22 (see also names of individual works)

personal life, 132, 229

personality traits of, 1–2, 9, 220, 230

photostat process in the works of, 7, 8, 50, 54, 79, 123, 125, 140, 153, 188, 191, 196, 198, 238, 244n7, 26n13, 269n34, 270n47

play in the works of, 1, 24, 34, 56, 67, 109, 123, 125, 154, 174, 200, 249n9, 252n60

poetic elements in the works of, 1, 9–10, 19, 21, 29, 37, 43, 46, 50, 133, 137, 153, 264n31, 268n14

and Pop Art, 197, 203

popular culture and, 1, 26, 87–88, 93, 120, 159

solar sets by, 185–89

space race concerns of, 175, 182–83, 188, 208, 214, 281–82n115

space-object boxes by, 1, 175, 281n115

spectral analysis of starlight, interest in, 15, 81, 207

stargazing by, 1, 9, 67, 121, 124, 181, 191

and Surrealism, 11, 17–21, 26–27, 28–30, 32, 34, 37, 40–43, 47–51, 53, 57–60, 64–65, 67, 70, 82, 89, 120–21, 132, 154, 180, 206–7, 241, 246n31, 254n15, 258n45, 263n23, 270n38

and Surrealist film, 70

whimsy and wit in the works of, 24, 55–56, 96, 160, 210, 217

window façade boxes by, 146, 151, 157, 273n80

work as textile salesman, 10

yellow sand boxes/trays by, 171, 189

zodiacal light and, 137, 138, 270n38

Cornell, Joseph, works

—Andromeda box (see Untitled [Andromeda...])

—Birth of the Nuclear Atom (c. 1957), 173, 173–74

—Cabinet of Natural History (Object) (1934, 1936–40), 29, 40–41, 41, 251n36

as surreal natural history, 41

—Carrousel (1952), 134, 269n33

—Cassiopeia #1 (box), 175, 176, 176–77, 179–80, 182, 220, 277n58

—Celestial Navigation (c. 1956–59), 190, 191, 192–93

—Celestial Theater (dossier), 72, 88, 115–20, 118, 123–24, 128, 138, 147, 151, 154–55, 188, 234, 260n3, 262n15, 262n19 264n31, 265n38, 267n61, 268n12, 272n73

—Central Park Carrousel, in Memorium, 121, 122, 123–25, 133

—The Children’s Party trilogy, 67–68, 69–73, 98, 123, 135–36, 145, 156, 255n22, 255n23, 256n30, 256–57n31

—Constellations Voisines du Pôle (c. 1951–53), 135–36, 137–38, 191, 197

—Constellations Voisines du Pôle, Les (1971), 136–37, 240–41

—Constellations of Spring / The Model (May 3, 1970), 230–31, 232

—Copernicus box, 163, 182

—Crystal Cage [portrait of Berenice] (1943), 49, 88–89, 90–91, 92–95, 97, 99–106, 107, 110–13, 114–15, 117, 127, 165, 252n60, 260n7, 261n12, 262n19, 263n23, 263n24, 265n34, 265n37, 271n53

and Christian Science, 103

word tower observatory in, 98–102, 108, 110, 112, 117, 165, 188, 261n12

—Duchamp Dossier, 23

—Elements of Natural Philosophy (1936–37), 29–30, 40–41, 57, 248n6, 251n36

—Enchanted Wanderer, Excerpt from a Journal Album for Hedy Lamarr, View (December 1941), 258n43

—Feathered Constellation (for Toumanova), A (1943), 260n65

—Flash Gordon montage, 114

—Gemini capsule collage, 213

—”Goofy Newsreels,” 57, 66, 262n19

—Hommage à Tamara Toumanova, 74–75

—Hôtel du Nord (c.1953), 132, 140, 147–48, 149

—How to Make a Rainbow (for Jeanne Eagels) (1963), 205, 206, 207

—Imperious Jewelry of the Universe (Lunar Baedecker): Portrait of Mina Loy (Daguerreotype object, 1936), 45

—Jackie Andromeda notes, 140, 143

—Marilyn Monroe dossier, 223, 276n37

—Nebula, the Powdered Sugar Princess (ballet-film, 1941), 73–77, 80, 82–83, 106, 167, 169, 252n60, 257n32, 257n34, 262n19, 264n32

—Night Songs (exhibition, 1950), 120–21, 125, 128, 132

—Night Voyage (exhibition, 1953), 132–33, 140, 146, 153, 269n30, 271n53

—Now Voyager II (collage), 216–18, 284n45

—Observations of a Satellite I, 208

—Observatory Columba Carrousel (1950), 125–26, 133

—Observatory Corona Borealis Casement (1950), 128–29, 130, 133

—Ondine dossier, 20

—“Penny Arcade” series re Autumnal (1964), 132, 203, 220, 221

—Radar Astronomy (early 1960s), 192–93, 210

—Rainbow Is a Spectrum (c. 1964), 224, 226

—Rapport de Contreras (Circe) (1966), 206, 223, 286n64

—Rose Hobart (film), 57–67, 70, 253n4, 253–54n7, 254n15, 262n19

bending of light in, 62

—Soap Bubble Set (1936), 11, 27–28, 29, 31–50, 53–56, 98, 120–21, 141, 159–60, 164, 169, 173, 175, 182, 184–86, 188, 190, 192–96, 235, 247nn1 and 2, 256n28

variants of, 50–51, 53–57, 55, 98, 120–21, 159–61, 169, 173, 175, 182–86, 183, 188, 190, 192–94, 194, 196, 200, 204–5, 247n2, 248n5, 248–49n9, 250n24, 253n65, 254nn15 and 16, 256n30, 273n10, 274n18, 281-82n115

—Story without a Name—for Max Ernst (c. 1934–35), 18

—Suzy’s Pipe Dream boxes (1957–60), 186

—Suzy’s Room (In Mem. Judy Tyler) (1957), 186–87, 188–89

—Tamara Toumanova Scrapbook, 74

—Theater of Hans Christian Anderson (Dance Index) (1945), 54

—Town and Country cover (1939), 7

—Untitled (Andromeda; Grand Hôtel de l’Observatoire), 140, 142–43, 145–47, 228, 258n45

—Untitled (Blue Sand Box with Starfish) (c. 1952), 167

—Untitled (Blue Sand Box) (early 1950s), 169, 171

—Untitled (Boötes, c. 1934), 14

—Untitled (Celestial Fantasy with Tamara Toumanova) (c. 1941), 85, 86

—Untitled (Custodian II, Silent Dedication to MM) (1962–63), 197–99, 280n106

—Untitled (Discarded Descartes) (c. 1954–56), 273n11

—Untitled (for Tamara Toumanova) (c. 1940), 87

—Untitled (La Cassiopée) (1930s), 12–13, 97

—Untitled (Phases de la lune) (c. 1957–59), 185–86

—Untitled (Soap Bubble Set: Système de Descartes) (c. 1952), 161, 182, 185

—Untitled (Solar Set) (c. 1956–58), 189

—Untitled (Triangles and the Distance to the Moon) (c. 1965–72), 213–14

—Untitled (Window Façade) (c. 1953), 151, 152, 153, 157

—Untitled [Ship with Nude] (mid-1960s), 228

—Untitled [Yellow Sand Tray, Sun and Planet Images], 165–66

—Untitled book object (Histoire des Temps Modernes) (1939), 64–65, 254n16

—Untitled cardboard box, 163–64

—Untitled (1930s), 48

—Untitled (c. 1964), 227

—Untitled (c. 1966), 212

—Untitled (c. 1970–71), 224

—Weather Satellites (1965), 210

—Winter Night Skies (exhibition, 1955), 132–33, 146–49, 263–64n26

Cornell, Robert (brother), 46, 73, 132, 206, 218, 229, 234–35, 278–79n75

death of, 204, 208, 210, 219, 229

diary of, 266n60

cosmic rays, 52–53, 158, 168, 169, 174

cosmic soap bubble, 38–39, 81, 83, 144, 158, 160, 195, 250n31. See also expanding universe

Cotillion. See Children’s Party trilogy

Dada, 17, 21, 27, 32, 35, 54, 58–59, 82

Dada film, 57

Dalí, Salvador, 19–21, 51–52, 58, 67, 115, 253–54n7

Dream of Venus Pavilion, New York World’s Fair, 1939, 51–52, 115, 266n49

Marriage of Buster Keaton, 21

de Chirico, Giorgio, 207

Toys of the Prince, 207

de Kooning, Willem, 120, 138–39, 157, 273n79

Dee, Frances, 113–14

Desargues, Gérard, 232

theorem, 233

Descartes, Rene, 64, 159, 161–63, 167, 232, 273n11

theory of tourbillons, 273nn13 and 14

Devree, Howard, 54

Ducasse, Isidore, 20

Duchamp, Marcel, 11, 19, 22–24, 35, 42, 44, 89, 109, 120, 121, 180, 202, 247n, 251n38, 252n60, 257n38, 260n65, 262–63n20, 264n32, 270n38, 275n29, 277–78n59, 282n1

Anémic Cinéma, 58

Boîtes-en-valise, 22, 109, 112

Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 23

and Cornell, 109

The Green Ray, 270n38

Large Glass, 42, 151, 247n19, 249n14, 251n38, 252n60, 256–57n31

“Juggler of the Center of Gravity,” 249n14, 256–57n31

and playful physics, 23–24, 247n39

With Hidden Noise, 164

Durbin, Deanna, 114

Eagels, Jeanne, 205–6, 207, 220

East of Borneo (film), 58–63, 67, 253n4, 254n9

eclipses (lunar and solar), 21, 52, 55, 58–67, 73, 78–79, 137–39, 149, 151, 189, 193–94, 211, 249n15, 253nn4 and 6; 254–55n19, 270n36

Eddington, Sir Arthur, 21–22, 59–61, 111, 246n37

Nature of the Physical World, The, 22, 246n

Eddy, Mary Baker, 24–25, 44, 46–47, 81, 103, 106, 154–55, 207 247n43, 261n12

disagrees with Agassiz, 47

Miscellaneous Writings, 47

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, 25, 46, 81, 106, 188, 243n, 247n44, 263n24, 272nn71 and 75

Egan Gallery, 120–21, 125, 127, 132, 140, 146, 203, 269n33, 270n36

Einstein, Albert, 3, 37–38, 50, 52, 60–63, 82, 95, 138–40, 158, 172, 204, 231, 252n62, 276n34

theory of relativity of, 2, 59–63, 113, 138, 256–57n31, 258n43, 270n42, 271n54, 275n28

theory of deflection of starlight, 61–63, 138–39

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 178, 184

Eluard, Paul, 15, 17, 20

Ernst, Max, 1, 15, 17, 19, 21, 24, 27, 35, 59, 138, 245n16, 245–46n19, 257n35, 269n31

La Femme 100 Têtes, 11, 15, 17, 245n

Mon Petit Mont Blanc, 15, 17

eroticism, in Cornell, 15, 23, 67, 140, 205, 223–230, 233

in Duchamp, 23

in Ernst, 17

expanding universe, 14, 30, 37–39, 72, 81, 144–45, 154–55, 250n31

Faraday, Michael, 34

Flammarion, Camille, 8, 10–12, 13, 14–15, 136, 140, 271

Androméde de l’atlas de Bayer (1603), 229

Androméde de l’atlas d’Hevelius (1690), 142

Astronomie Populaire (1880), 12, 15, 17, 31, 35, 42, 93, 95, 115, 245n13

Constellations Voisines du Pôle, Les, 135–36, 137, 191, 197, 238

Etoiles et les curíosités du ciel, Les (1882), 12, 13, 15, 76, 80, 96, 102, 106, 123, 135, 137, 140, 142, 146, 191, 197

La Pluralité des mondes habités (1862), 12

Les Terres du ciel (1884), 12, 15, 17, 33, 250n23, 282n13

Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (film, 1938), 114

Floating Head (portrait of Mary Taylor, photograph by Lee Miller), 248n5

Flushing Public Library (New York), 206, 223

Ford, Charles Henri, 76, 89, 282n7

“Ballet for Tamara Toumanova” (1943), 76, 77

Fosdick, Raymond B., 128

Freud, Sigmund, 19

Interpretation of Dreams, The, 19

Gagarin, Yuri, 209

Galileo Galilei, 1, 15, 22, 30–42, 93, 155, 159, 161, 217

study of the Moon by, 30, 35, 36, 44, 217, 227, 229

telescope of, 34–36, 217

Gamow, George, 38, 143, 162

“Turbulence in Space,” 162, 273n112

Garbo, Greta, 281n112

Garcia Lorca, Federico, 196

Gemini-Orion. See Cornell, Carrousel

Giacometti, Alberto, 20

Giant Golden Book of Mathematics (Irving Adler), 207–8, 213, 218, 221–22, 283n26, 284n36, 285n60

Glenn, John, 209

Golden Book of Astronomy (Rose Wyaler and Gerald Ames), 184, 189, 279n87

Golden Nature Guide, 2

Granger, Maud (actress), 25–26

gravitational phenomena, 70; 170, 174, 231, 256–57n31

earth, 31, 278n75

pull of Moon and Sun, 186

of “dark companion,” 200

gravity, 3, 23, 30–37, 54, 71–72, 82, 99, 162, 234, 248–49n9, 256–57n31

in Celestial Theater, 119

center of, 30–32, 32, 71, 159, 249n14, 256nn28 and 31

in Central Park Carrousel, 123

in The Children’s Party, 70–71, 98, 123

in Christian Science, 47

in Crystal Cage, 99, 102

interaction of, with light, 139

Newton’s laws of, 70–71, 136, 144, 249n12, 256n27

in Rose Hobart, 64

in Soap Bubble Set, 31, 36, 98, 159. See also specific gravity beads

Grisi, Carlotta, 99, 101, 108, 263n, 264n32

Guggenheim, Peggy, 46

Guillemin, Amédée, Phénomènes de la physique, Les (Forces of Nature, The, 1873), 31, 39

Le Ciel, 54

Hale telescope. See Mount Palomar Observatory

Hale, George Ellery, 127, 190

Halley’s Comet, 177

Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, 42

Hauptman, Jodi, 58–59, 64, 200

Joseph Cornell: Stargazing in the Cinema, 253nn2 and 6, 281n112

Hayden Planetarium (American Museum of Natural History, New York), 23, 36–37, 52–53, 59, 67, 78–79, 82, 139, 159, 190, 192, 238

Heavenly Bodies (Ruffino Tamayo), 130

Heisenberg, Werner, 180, 247n, 273n12, 277n57

Henderson, Linda Dalrymple, 23

Herschel, Caroline, 93–94, 102, 260n3

Herschel, William, 15, 17, 93–94, 260n3, 269n34

Herschel’s telescope, 112, 269n34

Hobart, Rose (actress), 58–67, 258n41

Holiday in Brazil (recording, Nestor Amaral), 60–61

Hooker telescope. See Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California

Hubble, Edwin P., 49–50, 81–83, 85, 87, 93, 94–95, 143, 252n62

Hugo Gallery, 54

Illuminations (Arthur Rimbaud), 137

International Astronomical Union, 3

International Geophysical Year (IGY, 1957–58), 174–75, 177, 189

Introduction to the History of Science, An (Walter Libby, 1917), 40

J. J. Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard), L’Etoile du Soir, 1849, 76

Jackie Lane Cinema. See Untitled, c. 1964

Jeanne Eagels (film), 205

Jeans, Sir James, 21–22, 83, 246n37

Universe around Us, Through Space and Time, The, 22

Johns, Jasper, 235

Jones, Jennifer, 281n112

Journal d’Agriculture Pratique et Journal de l’Agriculture (1911), 42

Judson Memorial Church (New York), 220

Julien Levy Gallery, 11–12. 19, 21, 27, 44, 53, 57, 66, 73, 120, 248n3, 254n16, 258n45, 260n65, 262n19

Kepler, Johannes, 1–2, 42, 95, 121, 285n61

conception of the universe of, 221–22, 232, 285n58

star notations by, 184

theory of solar magnetism, 279n91

Khrushchev, Nikita, 178, 184

King, Arthur S., 95

Kirchoff, Gustav, 15

Lacaille, Nicolas de, 163

Lamarr, Hedy, 78–79, 82 89, 114, 258n43, 281n112

Lane, Jackie, 140, 143, 224, 227, 270n47

Lang, Pearl, 270n47

leaning towers, 31–32, 159

Bologna, 31, 256n28

Pisa, 31

Leonov, Alexei, 214

Levy, Joella, 44, 46–47, 252n52

Levy, Julien, 11–12, 17, 34, 44–45, 47, 244n12, 245n16, 246n34, 252n52, 253–54n7

Lichtenstein, Roy, 203

Loplop (character in Ernst works), 17, 246

Losap Island (Pacific), 62–65

Lovell, James, 211

Lowell, Robert, 278n74

Loy, Mina, 44–47, 251n47

“Apology of Genius,” 44–45

L’Ombre féerique,” 46

“Lunar Baedeker,” 44–45

paintings of Moon by, 44

Lucretius, 177, 274n20, 278n75

De Rerum Natura, 180

Luna Park (Coney Island), 69, 99, 101, 115, 143, 256n31, 262nn16, 17, 19, 262–63n20, 263n21

Lynes, George Platt, 27, 29

Magritte, René, 20, 89, 232

Malheurs des immortels, Les (Max Ernst and Paul Eluard, 1922), 15, 17

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 2, 153, 202

Les Fenêtres (poem), 153

Mariner III, 218

Mariner IV, 217–18

Martinet, François Nicolas, Système de Descartes (1761), 3, 161–62, 163

Marx, Karl, 19, 158–59, 163, 274n14

Maxwell, James Clerk, 33

Mayer, Walther, 95

Méliès, Georges, 34, 57, 59, 73, 76, 78, 250n20

L’Eclipse du soleil en pleine lune [The Eclipse (The Courtship of the Sun and Moon) 1907], 34–35, 59, 73, 78

Le Voyage dans la lune (1902), 34, 73

Meninas, Las (painting, Diego Velasquez), 209

Méry, Joseph, Les Etoiles (1849), 76–77, 93

Midnight Party. See Children’s Party trilogy

Milky Way (galaxy), 80–81, 83, 98, 106, 134, 256–57n31

Milky Way (Janet Sobel, 1946), 130

Miller, Arthur (critic), 56

Millman, Bird (tightrope artist), 69–71, 99, 117–18

and constellation Cygnus, 71

Miro, Joan, 20, 28, 130

Constellations, 130

Miss Expanding Universe (Isamu Noguchi, 1932), 82

Mitchell, Maria, 93

Monroe, Marilyn, 53, 196, 198, 200, 205–6, 220, 223, 224, 280n106, 280–81nn108 and 112

Moon, 1–2, 17, 21, 27, 29–31, 34–36, 46, 52–53, 67, 70, 98, 100, 112, 138, 155, 166, 177, 182–83, 186, 193, 200, 213

in Americana Fantastica, 108

in Celestial Theatre, 116

in Children’s Party, 70, 72

in Circe and Her Lovers, 222

in Crystal Cage, 89, 112

and death of Marilyn Monroe, 200

eclipse of, in Rose Hobart, 62, 64

Galileo’s study of, 30, 35, 44, 217

in Nerval’s Aurélia, 43

as refuge for souls, 43

and Soap Bubble sets, 34–35, 37, 44–47, 49, 55, 160, 182, 184, 194–96, 235

in solar sets, 189

Soviet spacecraft landing on, 183–84

as symbol of perfection, 237

as symbol of Space Race, 183–84, 208, 212, 234–35, 237

in Untitled (Phases de la lune), 185

in Untitled (Triangles and Distance to the Moon), 214

U.S. program to land on, 213, 231, 235

in works of Mina Loy, 44–46

Moon, mountains of, 15, 35, 98, 250n23

Motherwell, Robert, 49

Mount Palomar Observatory, 49, 94, 124, 127, 132, 134, 143–46, 149, 155, 162, 219, 268n11

Mount Wilson Observatory (Pasadena, California), 38, 81, 94–95, 124, 190, 260n6

Mumford, Lewis, 119

Musée des Arts et Metiers, 23

Museum of Modern Art (New York), 21, 27, 29, 38, 48, 58, 121, 125, 202, 245n, 255n22

NASA, 208, 209–11, 214, 218

National Gallery (Washington, DC), 52, 286n64

National Geographic, 3, 190, 262n19, 265n37, 283n32

National Geographic Society, 134, 139

Nerval, Gérard de, 42–43. See also Aurélia

New Moonlight (Richard Lippold, 1947–48), 130

New York Times, 8, 38, 39, 59, 61, 82–83, 85, 111, 119, 121, 125, 128, 144, 145, 147, 154, 168, 175, 178, 183, 217, 258n43

New York World’s Fair, 1939, 115, 205; 1964–65, 215

Newton, Isaac, 6, 15, 30–31, 37–38, 40–42, 47, 50–51, 59, 70–72, 144–45, 162–63

laws of gravitation, 136

laws of motion, 71

Niuafou (Pacific island), 61–65; 254n9

Noguchi, Isamu, 82, 258–59n48

Novak, Kim, 205

Now Voyager (film, 1942), 284n43

Now Voyager (poem, Whitman), 218

O’Brien, Margaret, 281n112

observatories, 1, 3, 10, 32, 38, 49, 83, 85, 93–96, 98, 110–11, 124 128, 130, 132, 134, 137, 139, 145–46, 161, 204, 260n6, 268n11, 270n42. See also names of individual astronomers and observatories

Odets, Clifford, 200

O’Hara, Frank, 172–73

Page, Ruth, 82, 258–59n48

Pagode de Chantaloupe, 92–94, 97, 101, 112–13. See also Cornell’s Crystal Cage

Panofsky, Irwin, 223–24

Studies in Iconology, 223

Paris Observatory, 12

Pascal, Blaise, 20, 232

theorem, 233

Peck, William B., 31, 256n28

Introductory Course of Natural Philosophy for the Use of High Schools and Academies (1860), 31

Perseus and Andromeda (Peter Paul Rubens, 1620–21), 264n30

philosophical toys, 34, 138, 174, 177

Pierre Matisse Gallery (New York), 130

Pipe Dream (musical play), 186

Plateau, Joseph, 33, 50, 249n16, 250n19

phenakistiscope, 33, 50

playful astronomy. See Cornell, play in the works of

Playhouse 90 (television show), 178

Pleiades. See constellations, Taurus

Poe, Edgar Allan, 41, 92–93, 99

“The Balloon Hoax,” 92–93

“Berenice,” 103, 110, 263n23

Israfel, 99

poems, poetry and poets, 2, 8, 15, 20, 24–25, 29, 39, 44, 46, 76, 92, 99, 116, 137, 149, 153, 155, 159, 163, 196, 217–19, 251n47, 265n34, 268n14, 272n73, 274n18, 278n14, 284n45

Pollock, Jackson, 128, 130–31

Comet (1947), 130

Galaxy (1947), 131

Reflection of the Big Dipper (1947), 130

Shooting Star (1947), 130

Posidonius (Greek geographer), 195

Procyon. See constellations, Canis Minor

Project Gemini, 209–16

Gemini VI, 209–11

Gemini VII, 209–14

Project Mercury, 209

Ptolemy, 195

rainbows, 41, 98, 149, 205

Rauschenberg, Robert, 175, 203, 214–15, 276n41

Skyway, 215

Ray, Man, 19, 21, 28, 44, 58, 89

Electricity—The World (Electricite—Le Monde, 1931), 21

L’Etoile de mer, 58

Republic of Togo, 214

Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus, 99, 117

Robert Schoelkopf Gallery (New York), 234

Rockefeller Foundation, 128

Roy, Pierre, 21, 28, 246n

Electrification of the the Country, 1930, 21–22

Rutherford, Ernest, 173

Saqui, Madame (Marguerite Antoinette Saqui), 99

Saturn, rings of, 15, 17, 30–34, 52–54, 194

Schneeman, Carolee: Cornell relationship with, 220, 285n54

Meat Joy (Happening, 1964), 220

Science Amusante (Arthur Good aka “Tom Tit”), 30, 248n9

Scientific American, 3, 8, 106, 138, 143, 162, 166–67, 171–72, 173, 181, 184–85, 186, 190–91, 193, 208, 211, 217, 231–32, 233, 205n40, 270n39, 271n49, 273n12, 275n28, 276n32, 277n59

Schwitters, Kurt, 202

Sidereus Nuncius [Starry or Sidereal Messenger, 1610], 35–36

Sky Reporter, The, 3, 53, 190–91

soap bubbles and astronomy, 28–34, 37–39, 43, 46, 54, 83, 144, 158, 160, 169, 193, 232, 249nn16 and 18, 250n31

and Christian Science, 47

lunar, 27

and Newton’s study of light, 164

and Saturn’s rings, 33, 53–54

and the study of atoms, 169, 173, 275n29, 276n32. See also expanding universe

Soap Bubbles (Jean Siméon Chardin, 1733/34), 52

Sobral, Brazil, 61

solar eclipse, 21, 52, 58–67, 79, 137–39, 211, 253n4, 253n6, 270n36

solar merry-go-round, 267n8

solar turbulence, 162–63, 273n12

Soviet Union, 158, 175, 178, 180, 182–83

Space and the Architecture of the Universe (Gottfried Honegger and Peter Van Kamp), 39

Space Construction (László Moholy-Nagy, on cover of Art News, 1947), 130

space race. See Cornell, space race and

specific gravity beads, 36, 38, 250n25

“Spelterina,” La Signorina Maria, 99

Sputnik, 174, 177–80, 183, 185, 191, 201, 208, 276–77n43

Sputnik I, 175

Stable Gallery (Eleanor Ward), 132, 146, 172–73, 263–64n26

stargazing, 1, 49, 67, 99, 188

stars, Altair (in Aquila), 200, 237

Deneb (in Cygnus), 237

Hyades (see constellations, Taurus); Vega (see constellations, Lyra)

Stars: A Guide to the Constellations, Sun, Moon, Planets, and Other Features of the Heavens (Herbert Zim and Robert Baker), 2, 149, 151, 177, 186, 188, 192–93, 207, 217–18, 220, 222, 224, 230–31, 270nn36 and 39, 276–77n43

Sultan Abdul-Mecid I’s Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, 41

Sun, 60–63, 134, 137–38, 160, 162, 165–66, 180, 190, 193, 196, 210, 216–17, 267n8

in Cornell’s Now Voyager, 217–18

Cornell’s personal and spiritual parallels to, 188, 207

in Cornell’s Radar Astronomy box, 193

in Cornell’s sand boxes, 165–66, 188

in Cornell’s sun boxes, 185–86, 188–89, 203

in Cornell’s Triangles and Distance to the Moon, 213

in Cornell’s Voyager, 217

corona of, 62, 65, 138, 190

in Crystal Cage, 89

in Duchamp’s The Green Ray, 270n38

in Les Constellations, 136

magnetic field of, 190

pull of on starlight, 62–63

in Rose Hobart, 58–67

size of, 195

in Soap Bubble sets, 55, 188, 190, 195. See also Cornell, solar sets

Sunrise Semester (television show), 204

sunspots, 53, 189–90

Surrealism exhibition, 1932, 245n16

Suzanne de Bourbon in Prayer (painting by Jean Hey, the Master of Moulins, late 15th), 188

Tchelitchew, Pavel, 73–74, 79, 89

Telescope (poem by Leslie Nelson Jennings, CSM), 149

telescopes, 3, 10, 15, 32 34, 37, 49, 69, 76–77, 81, 83, 93–95, 111–12, 124, 127, 145, 155–56, 169, 177–78, 186, 210, 217, 219, 234, 256n30, 268n11, 276n43

Galileo’s telescope, 34–36, 217, 249n16

Herschel’s telescope, 93, 112, 269n34

Theater of Time and Space, New York World’s Fair, 1939, 52–53, 82

tides, 55

effects of sun and moon, 29, 186

tightrope dancers and dancing, 69–71, 89, 99, 100, 103–4, 115, 117, 119, 137, 144–45, 156, 256n28, 256–57n31, 261n14

Toumanova, Tamara, 73, 74–75, 79, 85, 87, 257n34, 258n42

toys for adults, 34, 53. See also Cornell and Surrealism

Trois Regnes, Les (Jacques Delille, 1806), 163

Troubador of the Stars (1940), 121

Twilight Zone (television show), 205, 212

Tycho Brahe, 1, 15, 17n, 35, 94–96, 96n, 102, 121, 184, 231

Observatory of, at Uraniborg, 94–95, 96, 97, 261n10

Soap Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them, 31

Tycho’s nova (1572), 95–96, 110, 175, 177, 180, 222

Tycho’s star, 106, 177

Tyler, Judy (actress), 186, 188

Tyler, Parker, 89, 130, 258n43

Uranographia (Bode, Johann, 1801), 3, 14, 107, 108, 197, 269n34

Uranographia (Hevelius, Johannes, 1690), 3, 8, 106–7, 140, 142, 143, 146–147, 224, 250n23, 282n13

Uranometria (Johann Bayer, 1603), 3, 12

Uranus, 15, 17, 93, 269n34

von Frauhofer, Joseph, 15

Voskhod II (satellite), 214

Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, Connecticut), 22, 29, 50, 248nn3 and 4, 254n16

Ward, Fanny, 104

Warhol, Andy, 197, 203, 214

Watershed, The (Koestler, Arthur, 1960), 2, 220, 279n91, 285n58

weather satellites, 208–10

TIROS, 208, 210

Webb, Mary, 112

Weidler, Virginia, 114, 281n112

Werner Heisenberg’s principle of indeterminancy, 1927, 180

White, Edward, 214

World War II, 54, 110, 158

radar research and use during, 193

Zat Zam (Aztec Sun Worshipper), 69–70; 255n24

Ziegfeld Girl (film, 1941), 78–79, 82, 87, 258n41

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