Boxing the City
Gaby Wood, 31 July 1997
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
by Deborah Solomon.
Cape, 426 pp., £25, June 1997,0 224 04242 4 Show More
by Deborah Solomon.
Cape, 426 pp., £25, June 1997,
“... boxes to amuse Robert, or that he was influenced by the miniaturised life of Robert’s train set. Deborah Solomon finds no evidence for this, though it appears that the meals Joseph made for Robert ‘always consisted of the most incredible colours ... He used to squeeze violets on top of mushroom soup to make it lilac-coloured.’ If he had not seen ... ”