Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay...Eterniday

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Summary: New Printing in March of 2004
Review: For those of you who missed the first printing and are choking on the $120+ price tags of the "second" hand copies, please know that the Voyager Foundation is doing a second printing in March of 2004 - keep on top of the listings and snap one up as soon as it appears - for the low-low asking price of $60.

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Summary: Long overdue
Review: The book is exceptionally well produced and thorough. It may be too thorough for the "sound bite" mind, but it could also be a cure. The more you see of Cornell's work the more you realize you live in a Joseph Cornell box. The stuff we wander around in and collect is the stuff of his visions and memories.
Apparently none of the reviewers looked at the DVD. It is as well produced as can be expected for a large audience with many different types of computers as we all use. It presents an astounding amount of beautiful graphics, including interiors and high resolution details of many boxes. I was thrilled to see Cornell's movies, which were new to me. There are interviews and many other documents about his life and art. I can imagine spending a lot of rainy afternoons rummaging through the DVD, particularly by kids who will find new meaning in the treasures they've stored up in secret places.
It would be nice if there were a version for interactive TV. It would be easier to share and an antidote to the nightly after dinner autopsies, canned laughter and other mayhem.
This book and DVD are prolific and quiet like Cornell and I'm sure he would have approved.

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Summary: Great tribute to a Great Artist
Review: This is a superlative tribute to and presentation of Cornell's beautiful work. I suggest the reviewer who said that there is no DVD included request a replacement and retract the above review. There IS a DVD, and it is wonderful.

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Summary: The DVD Alone would be worth the price
Review: This is a wonderful way to examine Joseph Cornell's work up close, in a way that most people will never be able to do. We normally can not turn the boxes around, and look at them closely at every angle, unless we know a Cornell collector. With this DVD you can do that, and these works were intended to be seen that way. The book is beautiful and thoughtfully written; it fills in background needed to fully appreciate the works.