Utopia parkway: the life and work of Joseph Cornell

Deborah Solomon's definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America's most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued ten years laterFew artists ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius prized for his enigmatic shadow boxes, who stands at the intersection of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art.

Legends about Cornell aboundthe shy hermit, the devoted family caretaker, the artistic innocentbut never before has he been presented for what he was: a brilliant, relentlessly serious artist whose stature has now reached monumental proportions.