![]() ![]() Cornell’s Dream Boxes by Jeanette Winter. Children young and old will delight in the artistic splendor of this illustrated. ![]() The story is haunting and dreamlike, and the language is always clear and economical. Cornells Dream Boxes book by Jeanette Winter. ![]() If you had lived on Utopia Parkway not so long ago… It’s even written in the subjunctive tense, like The Iridescence of Birds: In many ways, it’s much closer in spirit to Viva Frida and The Iridescence of Birds than it is to a traditional artist biography. Cornell”–and while a few biographical details emerge in the telling (for example, Cornell cared for his disabled brother), the book is mostly a celebration of how an artist creates. The narrator is appropriately childlike–no “Joseph” or “Cornell” here but a respectful “Mr. (The back matter has wonderful photos of that exhibition and of Cornell talking to kids at it). In addition to examining the magical boxes, hung at a child’s eye level, the children got to eat brownies and drink soda pop. Winter builds the story around a special exhibition especially for children that Cornell set up at the end of his life. This lovely book gives us a child’s-eye glimpse of the process that folk artist Joseph Cornell followed in creating his assembled boxes. ![]()
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