in New York, the dreams under the glass Joseph Cornell – Libération

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the “Manifesto”, “Libé” is interested in a movement reported throughout the planet. The clever and shy American creator, inspired by Ernst, locked his little imaginary worlds of odds and ends in small boxes from the 1930s onwards.

Employed by Duchamp

Along with the methods at hand, equipped with materials and images found in the street or flea markets, some of his amazing boxes, rebus-sized boxes, are presented at the International Exhibition of Surrealism at Beaux-Arts in Paris, in 1938, in which two other Americans participated, the designer Anne Clark and Man Ray, to whom Cornell is due to receive an invitation. If he is already recognized in the United States as one of the pioneers in collecting heterogeneous materials to produce imaginative sketches, he uses the technique of collages from Max Ernst who has he admits that he liked it. The Woman of 100 Headsa collage novel published in 1929. At the time, the movement