First art book purchase of 2024, found at a reasonable price on the Oxfam website (cheaper than anywhere else). Hardback edition, 1992...but...can you see anything wrong with the picture below?
Joseph Cornell was not an Abstract Expressionist, was he? Perhaps you agree with Waldman that he belongs in that category. She claims his works from the 1950s 'parallel the interests of the Abstract Expressionist painters' due to the 'painterly interiors' and 'paint...often layered, some of it intentionally chipped or left peeling'. OK, but I think it's stretching things a bit to place him in a chapter called Abstract Expressionism. He belongs more in the Surrealism chapter, surely. His work was not 'abstract', not did it demonstrate expressionistic tendencies. This fault aside, it's a good book.
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