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Greenberg, Clement | December 26, 1942 issue

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In this article, the author focuses on the arts exhibition titled as "Joseph Cornel and Laurence Vail: Objects and Bottles." In Vail's bottles and even in Cornell's objects surrealism encourages a tendency it often opposes-the abstract. Bottles do not owe their beauty to things represented on the scraps of pictures Vail cuts out of magazines and pastes around the glass, but rather to the way the bottle shape is married to the color and design of the collage. Vail's bottles do not appear at their best in a gallery.

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ART museums; EXHIBITIONS; ARTS facilities; CORNEL, Joseph; VAIL, Laurence; ARTISTS & museums; SCULPTURE
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