Julien Levy: Memoir of an Art Gallery

by Joseph Cornell (Artist), Ingrid Schaffner

Autobiography of the man who brought Surrealism to America and discovered Cornell, Berman, Gorky, and others. New introduction by Ingrid Schaffner.

Genres: Art

320 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2003

About the author

Joseph Cornell was a visual artist and avant-garde experimental filmmaker most remembered for his techniques of assemblage, including shadow boxes, collage, and found-film montage. His works have been exhibited in major retrospectives at starting with the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum) in December 1966, and followed by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, MoMA, SFMoMA, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Collections remain at those in addition to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and others.

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent book detailing the story of the European surrealist artists and photographers whose work was introduced to New York by Julien Levy in his gallery. By the way the author of this book is Julien Levy. Joseph Cornell is in the book and Ingrid Schaffer wrote the forward. They are not the authors.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

excellent memoir by an innovative art dealer who showed Surrealist works when it wasn't popular
or profitable

[Iniville · Rating 3 out of 5]

He's a blowhard but there are lots of worthy anecdotes to make it worthwhile.