Cornell was almost compulsively focused on children, to the point of presenting, in 1972, what was probably the first avant-garde art exhibition in New York for children only. At the Cooper Union gallery, Cornell displayed 26 boxes and collages at child’s-eye level, no more than three feet off the ground, and at the opening reception, children dined not on champagne and caviar but on cherry soda and brownies.
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I didn't know that - how cool. I'll have to track down some more images of his work featuring children.
Thanks!
Lee
Cornell lived on Utopia Parkway in Quens, creating a kind of boxed utopia
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