Joseph Cornell: Gifts of Desire by Dickran Tashjian - 1992-11

Miami Beach: Grassfield Press, 1992. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. 144 pages. Includes numerous color plates and black & white photographs. Work focuses on the collages and boxes created as personal homages and gifts for ballerinas, actresses, poets and historic figures.

Miami Beach: Grassfield Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 25 x 19 cm. Octavo. 144pp. Toning to covers and edges of pages.

Miami Beach, Florida: Grassfield Press, 1992. Hardcover. VG but art museum ex-lib. copy with a few discreet marks. None to spine or text.. Blue & illus. boards. 144 pp. 22 bw, 26 color plates. "Provides a fresh analysis of Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) by focusing on works that were conceived as gifts to ballerinas, actresses, poets, and historic figures." (preface) Chapters are titled The Act of Giving: "The Spirit in Which the Gift is Rich"; Early Gifts from an Enchanted Wanderer; Cornell's "Inspired By-paths of Romance": Marianne Moore and Emily Dickinson; Mad King Ludwig; Mad About the Ballet; and Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall. Includes a two-page bibliography. Wonderful illustrations.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.