I first came to him via the films, esp "Rose Hobart" ... but I've seen a lot of the boxes etc, including that show that toured a couple years ago. Anyone read that bio Utopia Parkway?
JC via Dennis Cooper:
http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2008/08/resurrection-9-vomitingghosts-presents.html
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 20:59 (seventeen years ago)
Total Classic
― admrl, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:04 (seventeen years ago)
are the films available on dvd?
― J.D., Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:15 (seventeen years ago)
I'm pretty sure they're not. iMdb had nothing listed for sale.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:17 (seventeen years ago)
but wait...
http://www.voyager-foundation.org/videointro.html
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:19 (seventeen years ago)
haven't seen the movies, but i'd like to. love the boxes.
― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:20 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.ubu.com/film/cornell.html
― admrl, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:22 (seventeen years ago)
oh, there ya go.
otoh, I think the films are best seen projected to "get" what he was doing... but everyone can't be at Anthology Film Archives when they show them 3 times a year.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:24 (seventeen years ago)
Read "Dime Store Alchemy" by Charles Simic - short pieces that attempt to "write" Cornell's boxes. It's a really great little book with nice pictures.
― admrl, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:27 (seventeen years ago)
he was close to a total recluse, right? his boxes really have that obsessive hothouse vibe.
― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:30 (seventeen years ago)
(oh yeah, that's covered in the dennis cooper piece)
― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:32 (seventeen years ago)
Was he gay? Does anyone know?
― admrl, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:43 (seventeen years ago)
He had a late-life thing with some midtown waitress; I don't know enough, otherwise.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:44 (seventeen years ago)
C
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)
IIRC he was decidedly heterosexual, but had zero social skills about it. But I could be misremembering.
He is C beyond C.
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 22:59 (seventeen years ago)
yes, Dr. Morbius, I read the bio ten years ago or so and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
and since you guys were wondering, it clears up the mysteries of his sexuality pretty well, also. As I recall, Casuistry is otm as far as that goes.
In the book I think it describes how at one point this female admirer of his work made a point of deflowering him...can't recall the details now, though; sorry
― dell, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 23:23 (seventeen years ago)
deflowering joseph cornell, starring maggie gyllenhaal and johnny depp. directed by lasse hallstrom.
― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 23:52 (seventeen years ago)
only stative verbs work in that construction - oh deflowering as a state of being
― youn, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 23:58 (seventeen years ago)
loving the movies! thanks ubuweb!
― scott seward, Friday, 17 June 2011 15:27 (fourteen years ago)