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Cassiopeia source material box

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Description: Cassiopeia source material box
TitleCassiopeia source material box
Creator nameCornell, Joseph
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleArtist
Creation datec. 1961–1962
Object typeOther
MaterialsUnknown
LocationJoseph Cornell Study Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsAssemblage (Art)Surrealism--United StatesConstellations in art
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Chapter IV. Astronomia Fantastica
Kirsten Hoving
Description: Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars
Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars
~THE JANUARY 1943 “AMERICANA FANTASTICA” issue of View magazine featured a wraparound cover designed by Cornell, along with a visual essay entitled The Crystal Cage [portrait of Berenice]. The cover and essay offer another glimpse into the part astronomy played in his creative process, now as a framework for a complex...
Author
Kirsten Hoving
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 2009 by Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.89-119
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23759&redirecttoanchor=102800
Chapter subject tags:Cornell, JosephSurrealism--United StatesAstronomy in artArt and science--United States--20th centuryCollage, American--20th centuryConstellations in art

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Description: Etant donnés: 1. la chute d'eau; 2. le gaz d'éclairage (Given: 1. The...
Etant donnés: 1. la chute d'eau; 2. le gaz d'éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall; 2. The Illuminating Gas), exterior view
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 12
Creator nameDuchamp, Marcel
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator roleArtist
Creation date1946–1966
Object typeInstallation
MaterialsMixed media assemblage: (exterior) wooden door, iron nails, bricks, and stucco; (interior) bricks, velvet, wood, parchment over an armature of lead, steel, brass, synthetic putties and adhesives, aluminum sheet, welded steel-wire screen, and wood; Peg-Board, hair, oil paint, plastic, steel binder clips, plastic clothespins, twigs, leaves, glass, plywood, brass piano hinge, nails, screws, cotton, collotype prints, acrylic varnish, chalk, graphite, paper, cardboard, tape, pen ink, electric light fixtures, gas lamp (Bec Auer type), foam rubber, cork, electric motor, cookie tin, and linoleum
Dimensions95 1/2 × 70 × 49 in. (242.6 × 177.8 × 124.5 cm)
LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/65633.html
Accession number1969-41-1
Etant donnés: 1. la chute d'eau;...
Étant donnés, exterior view
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Posted by:John Carlson
Apr 10
Creator nameDominguez, Oscar
Creator nationality/cultureSpanish
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1936
Object typePainting
MaterialsGouache transfer (decalcomania) on paper
Dimensions35.9 × 29.2 cm
LocationMuseum of Modern Art, New York
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/37018
Accession number458.1937
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