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From: Alan Halsey <[log in to unmask]>
To: Geraldine Monk <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: David Kennedy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 03 February 2001 14:58
Subject: new book from West House
>New from West House Books
>
>CORNELL: A CIRCUITION AROUND HIS CIRCUMAMBULATION
>by David Kennedy
>
>A homage to Joseph Cornell, best known for his boxes in which seemingly
>unrelated objects gathered on walks through New York - stuffed birds,
>marbles, clay pipes, stamps, theatre posters - were fashioned into
>aviaries, pharmacies, hotels and penny arcades. In this series of prose
>meditations David Kennedy considers the boxes as structures of feeling
>and sets Cornell's work in the context of other art and poetry inspired
>by city walking.
>
>First published as an artist's book of only 7 copies & now reissued by
>West House in an edition of 200 of which 12 are signed & numbered & have
>individual colour collage covers by the author.
>
>20pp.
>isbn 0 9531509 5 X
>
>L3.50 (signed edn L12)
>
>West House Books, 40 Crescent Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1HN, U.K.
>
>email [log in to unmask]
>
>US distribution by SPD, 1341 Seventh St, Berkeley, CA 94710-1409
>
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>Alan Halsey
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