Bebe Marie Presents
by Eric Edelman
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15.000 x 12.000 inches
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Title
Bebe Marie Presents
Artist
Eric Edelman
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Collage
Description
Sometime in the early twentieth century, the American artist Joseph Cornell paid a visit to his cousin Ethel. An only child, Ethel lived alone in a �Hudson River-type� house, as Cornell�s sister Betty described it. During his visit and while rummaging around in the basement or attic of Ethel�s house, Cornell found a large Victorian porcelain girl doll; when he left Ethel�s house, the doll left with him. He did not tell Ethel that he had taken the doll.Cornell wrote later on that he had �kidnapped� this doll, which he would name �B�b� Marie� later on. That Cornell regarded the act of taking the doll as a kidnapping rather than an act of theft shows that he believed the doll had the soul of a living being. His naming the doll carried it further into the human realm. In common with many who own dolls, and make or use ventriloquist�s dummies, statues, figures, or mannequins, Cornell had imbued B�b� Marie with part of his soul.
Somewhat after acquiring B�b� Marie, Cornell set her in a grove of bare-twig trees within a glass-fronted box. His encasement of the doll seemed to strengthen her quality of soul: having �freed� her from entombment in his cousin�s house, treated her like a person, and given her a name, he now gave her a space in which to live and act.
(The details of Cornell�s visit to his cousin were taken from the reminiscences of his sister Elizabeth Cornell Benton, as published in the book Joseph Cornell�s Vision of Spiritual Order, by Lindsay Blair [London: Reaktion Books, 1998].)
(All artwork, descriptions, & other text (except for quotations and cited research material) created & copyright � by Eric Edelman. All rights reserved.)
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March 14th, 2012
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