Utopia Parkway: Life and Works of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon

About the program:

Book Club is a reading group chaired by a volunteer DVAA Member each month. This month will be chaired by Bill Brookover. This is a Members-only program (including Supporting Members). To participate in this program, read the book, and join the discussion on Zoom.

About the reading:

This month’s reading: Utopia Parkway: Life and Works of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon

Deborah Solomon’s definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America’s most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued twenty years later with updated and extensively revised text.

Few 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 abound—the shy hermit, the devoted family caretaker, the artistic innocent—but never before has he been presented for what he was: a brilliant, relentlessly serious artist whose stature has now reached monumental proportions.