biography
pronunciation:
[kaw(r)nel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1903–72)
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| biography:
| Artist, born in Nyack, New York, USA. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, MA (1917–21), worked for his father's textile company, and after his father's death moved to Utopia Parkway, Flushing, New York City, where he spent the rest of his life. Something of a recluse, he collected ephemera, books, and objects. Often regarded as a Surrealist, he was influenced by Max Ernst's La Femme 100 Tetes, a collage-novel (1929). His work, described as ‘assemblage’, consisted of small boxes for walls or tables, as in ‘Homage to the Romantic Ballet’ (1942). ‘Multiple Cubes’ (1946–8), led to such series of works as ‘Eclipse’ (c.1960–2) and ‘Clay Pipe’ (c.1962). He is considered the master of miniature worlds that represent magic reincarnations of the past. |
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