Joseph Cornell: artist/collector/archivist
Joseph Cornell Taglioni's Jewel Casket 1940 MOMA
The first of dozens Cornell made in honor of famous ballerinas,
this box pays homage to Marie Taglioni, an acclaimed nineteenth-century Italian
dancer who, according to legend, kept an imitation ice cube in her jewelry box
to commemorate dancing in the snow at the behest of a Russian highwayman. The
box is infused with erotic undertones—both in the tactile nature of the glass
cubes, velvet, and rhinestone necklace (purchased at a Woolworth's dime store
in New York) and in the incident itself, in which Taglioni reportedly performed
on an animal skin placed across the snowy road. read more
Untitled drawing / collage by Joseph Cornell 1030-40
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