Author: Robert Coover
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hotels
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Coover takes us through the looking-glass of Joseph Cornell's boxes into a world of "Grand Hotels" we never dreamed of. Rooms are accessed via ferris wheel. They open onto crystal cages, night voyages, sand fountains. They lead us back to childhood, to forgotten games, to sleeping princess who do not await a prince and, finally, home, poor heart. Funny and wistful by turns, these brilliant vignettes explore the nature of desire and the melancholy of fulfillment. As the author says, they are also an "architectural portrait of the artist," with biographical information "built into the construction of the text like girders, brickwork or decor."
The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell)
Author: Robert Coover
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hotels
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Coover takes us through the looking-glass of Joseph Cornell's boxes into a world of "Grand Hotels" we never dreamed of. Rooms are accessed via ferris wheel. They open onto crystal cages, night voyages, sand fountains. They lead us back to childhood, to forgotten games, to sleeping princess who do not await a prince and, finally, home, poor heart. Funny and wistful by turns, these brilliant vignettes explore the nature of desire and the melancholy of fulfillment. As the author says, they are also an "architectural portrait of the artist," with biographical information "built into the construction of the text like girders, brickwork or decor."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hotels
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Coover takes us through the looking-glass of Joseph Cornell's boxes into a world of "Grand Hotels" we never dreamed of. Rooms are accessed via ferris wheel. They open onto crystal cages, night voyages, sand fountains. They lead us back to childhood, to forgotten games, to sleeping princess who do not await a prince and, finally, home, poor heart. Funny and wistful by turns, these brilliant vignettes explore the nature of desire and the melancholy of fulfillment. As the author says, they are also an "architectural portrait of the artist," with biographical information "built into the construction of the text like girders, brickwork or decor."
DOVECOTES, HOTELS AND OTHER WHITE SPACES.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Grand Hotels
Author: Elaine Denby
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861891211
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
From its beginnings as the humble inn, the hotel has undergone enormous changes over the centuries. Elaine Denby charts the development of the Grand Hotel and how it has kept pace with technological innovations.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861891211
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
From its beginnings as the humble inn, the hotel has undergone enormous changes over the centuries. Elaine Denby charts the development of the Grand Hotel and how it has kept pace with technological innovations.
Surrealism and Architecture
Author: Thomas Mical
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415325196
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Twenty-one essays examining the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415325196
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Twenty-one essays examining the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice.
The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell)
Author: Robert Coover
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Coover takes us through the looking-glass of Joseph Cornell's boxes into a world of "Grand Hotels" we never dreamed of. Rooms are accessed via ferris wheel. They open onto crystal cages, night voyages, sand fountains. They lead us back to childhood, to forgotten games, to sleeping princess who do not await a prince and, finally, home, poor heart. Funny and wistful by turns, these brilliant vignettes explore the nature of desire and the melancholy of fulfillment. As the author says, they are also an "architectural portrait of the artist," with biographical information "built into the construction of the text like girders, brickwork or decor."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Coover takes us through the looking-glass of Joseph Cornell's boxes into a world of "Grand Hotels" we never dreamed of. Rooms are accessed via ferris wheel. They open onto crystal cages, night voyages, sand fountains. They lead us back to childhood, to forgotten games, to sleeping princess who do not await a prince and, finally, home, poor heart. Funny and wistful by turns, these brilliant vignettes explore the nature of desire and the melancholy of fulfillment. As the author says, they are also an "architectural portrait of the artist," with biographical information "built into the construction of the text like girders, brickwork or decor."
Joseph Cornell
Author: Joseph Cornell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Joseph Cornell
Author: Joseph Cornell
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of the work of a quintessential American artist, Joseph Cornell, this volume presents his life and work, including an analysis of his relationship to twentieth-century art, particularly to Surrealism.
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of the work of a quintessential American artist, Joseph Cornell, this volume presents his life and work, including an analysis of his relationship to twentieth-century art, particularly to Surrealism.
Understanding Robert Coover
Author: Brian Evenson
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570034824
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This text takes on the work of Robert Coover, a major figure of postmodern metafiction. In an analysis of Coover's short stories and novels, it demonstrates how Coover writes in several different modes that cross over into one another.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570034824
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This text takes on the work of Robert Coover, a major figure of postmodern metafiction. In an analysis of Coover's short stories and novels, it demonstrates how Coover writes in several different modes that cross over into one another.
Joseph Cornell
Author: Diane Waldman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this volume she probes Cornell's elusive imagery in his earliest Surrealist-inspired collages of the 1930s, his masterful box constructions of the 1940s and 1950s, his experimental films, and his final collages in his last years."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this volume she probes Cornell's elusive imagery in his earliest Surrealist-inspired collages of the 1930s, his masterful box constructions of the 1940s and 1950s, his experimental films, and his final collages in his last years."--BOOK JACKET.
Hotel
Author: Robert A. Davidson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442610948
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442610948
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description