**Deborah Solomon's definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of
America's most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now
reissued twenty years later with updated and extensively revised text
**
Few artists ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the
self-taught American genius prized for his enigmatic shadow boxes, who
stands at the intersection of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and
Pop Art. Legends about Cornell abound--the shy hermit, the devoted
family caretaker, the artistic innocent--but never before has he been
presented for what he was: a brilliant, relentlessly serious artist
whose stature has now reached monumental proportions.