{"id":130,"date":"2020-04-05T06:54:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T10:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/?p=130"},"modified":"2020-04-30T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T11:54:58","slug":"penny-arcade-with-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/2020\/04\/penny-arcade-with-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Arcade with Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Known for his enigmatic constructed boxes and collages, Joseph Cornell pioneered assemblage art with his Surrealist view of the world. Initially inspired by European Surrealists like Max Ernst, Cornell\u2019s fanciful, dream-like compositions of found objects combine ideas and imagery of astronomy, music and dance. Themes of nostalgia prevail in his work, recalling childhood and an earlier era of 19th century Victorian culture. <em>Penny Arcade with Horse <\/em>synthesizes these concepts, as the wooden horse, shooting target (of amusement park origin), hearts, doves and cutout of a young boy reference childhood whimsy while the figures and pennies are configured on the rings of the target in an imaginative solar-system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/files\/2020\/04\/1985.76-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/files\/2020\/04\/1985.76-sm.jpg 598w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/files\/2020\/04\/1985.76-sm-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><figcaption>Joseph Cornell (American, 1903-1972) <em>Penny Arcade with Horse,<\/em>1965 Multimedia construction Museum purchase with Patrick A. Spensley Fund and Doepper Art Fund 1985.76&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Known for his enigmatic constructed boxes and collages, Joseph Cornell pioneered assemblage art with his Surrealist view of the world. Initially inspired by European Surrealists <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/2020\/04\/penny-arcade-with-horse\/\" title=\"Penny Arcade with Horse\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1541,"featured_media":190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[20,57,52],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collage","tag-american","tag-cornell","tag-modern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-arthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}