Untitled (Butterfly Habitat)

c. 1940 · Mixed Media

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『Untitled (Butterfly Habitat)』は今どこに？ シカゴ美術館, 展示室 397, シカゴ. はい、現在展示中. 確認 2026年9月29日.

シカゴ美術館

シカゴ, アメリカ合衆国

展示室展示室 397

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確認: 12 日前
この状態になった日: 2026年8月19日
出典: 美術館

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作品について

For approximately thirty years, Joseph Cornell worked in relative obscurity in the basement of his home in Queens, New York, creating a multitude of wondrous miniature worlds within his boxed constructions. Poetic mélanges of found objects and materials, his deeply personal and elusive work (which also includes many collages on paper) combines the enthusiasms of his childhood—butterflies, marbles, seashells, sky charts, stamps—with adult fascinations such as ballerinas, empty cages, and movie stars. Cornell’s boxes often prompt a dizzying series of associations; in Untitled (Butterfly Habitat), these include Christmas decorations, collector’s cabinets for specimens, microscopes, natural history displays, sailor’s boxes, and windows. Some of these references are contradictory, reinforcing the work’s ambiguity.

Ideas linked to flight, voyages, and the exotic are countered by the rigid and symmetrical organization of the display. The butterflies are not, however, pinned as they would be on a specimen board. Each pane of paint-spattered glass encloses a small compartment with white wood walls in which a cutout of a paper butterfly is suspended with string, allowing for some movement as the box is handled.

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