shadow box

art
Also known as: memory box, poetic theatre

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work of Cornell

  • Cornell, Joseph
    In Joseph Cornell

    …(Soap Bubble Set), his first shadow box of the type for which he became best known. Cornell’s shadow boxes—or “memory boxes” or “poetic theatres,” as he called them—took the form of glass-fronted boxes containing found objects and collaged elements arranged in enigmatic, often poetic, juxtaposition. Recurrent themes and motifs included…

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