Dime-Store Alchemy: Art of Joseph Cornell Charles Simic PB 1992 Art

Description: Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell. Charles Simic. Softcover. NYRB Classics. First edition, first printing, 1992. Excellent condition. The binding is tight. No creasing of the spine. The pages are clean, no markings, no creasing or tears. The covers are clean, scant wear / edge wear. Free domestic shipping USPS Media Mail. “Dime-Store Alchemy...is the most sustained literary response this far to Cornell’s boxes, montages, and films...incisive, freewheeling, dramatic—a mixture of evocation and observation, as lucid and shadowy as the imagination it celebrates...Dime-Store Alchemy is a meeting of kindred spirits that is itself a work of art.” —Edward Hirsch, The New Yorker “A beautiful book that evokes Cornell’s artistic spirit.” —Harper’s Bazaar"Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell, [is] a fascinating long-out-of-print book that explores the eccentric genius of the artist through the insightful and often obsessive lens of the poet Charles Simic, who examines eight of Cornell's most remarkable boxes. It is, more than anything, a meditation on beauty and the art of imagination. Simic's writing itself is a metaphor for Cornell's thoughtful collages, stitching together elements of texts by some of the artist's favorite poets and authors....What makes Dime-Store Alchemy most exceptional is the elegant parallel between the poetry of Cornell's work and that of Simic's narrative interpretation of it, at once an embodiment of and commentary on the power of remix in creation." -- The Atlantic

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