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Read Count Zero and you will learn all about Joseph Cornell. Not facts, mind you, but you will learn what Cornell's work feels like.

The Cornell exhibition I went to see is, alas, closed now:

http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Cornell-Lynda-Roscoe-Hartigan/d...

...and all the boxes are back in the hands of various collectors. But modern art museums have them in smaller numbers. I saw a few of them at the Art Institute of Chicago, for example.

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