Alice imagery, 117, 119 Alice and La Toilette de Cathie, sexuality and menace in, 119 Andre Derain, denial of eroticism in, 123
Balthus in his Own Words, 119 biographer Nicholas Weber, 107, 111, 112, 116, 119, 123, 126 cat imagery of, 105, 114, 117-8, 121-2,125
Girl with a Cat, 121-2 Nude with a Cat, 122 childhood, wish to return to, 120 comparisons with Bellmer, Cornell, Picasso, 1,2, 5, 10, 21, 151, 181, 183, 190, 191
denial and evasion of, 108, 128 denial of the erotic in paintings of, 124 eroticism in his paintings, 121 fascination with girls, 106-7,124 girls versus women as subjects, 106 The Guitar Lesson, 112, 122, 131 as a humanist, 105
imagery of sacrifice in Young Woman in Green and Red and Therese,
1 21
landscapes, 62,128
Lena Leclerq and, 126
male and female figures together in
paintings, 122-3, 126 mother, fear of death of, 113 on painting and faith, 130 parenting of, 110 Pierre (brother), 111-4, 126, 133 portraits of adult women, 115 red, use of, 116, 119, 121- 23 relationships with models, 107, 124, 125-7, 131
Setsuko Ikeda as model, 127 sons, 119
study for The Guitar Lesson, 112, 122 The Room, description of, 118, 122 The Street, 107
Tison, Frederique, model in Young Girl in a White Shirt, Girl at a Window, 120, 126, 134
treatment of Miro’s daughter by, 123 Vanished Splendors, 108, 124, 132, 133- 137 n7
Bartholomew, Kim, 13, 22
studies in avoidance of intimacy, 13 Bataille, George, 42, 46, 94, 126 Bataille, Laurence
Balthus, and 126, 136 model for Le chat de la Mediterranee, 126
Bellmer, Fritz (brother), 86-9 Bellmer, Maria (mother), 88, 99 death of, 86-7
relationship with husband, 87, 91 Bellmer, Hans, 105, 111 alcoholism, 96 appearance, 79 attitude toward women, 102 autobiographical writing, 93 ball joints, 79, 80, 98 biographer Peter Webb, 83, 87, 88, 90, 93
bondage series, 86 brother, Fritz 86-89 childhood, 87, 98
collusion of family members and friends with images, 82, 86, 90, 94, 95, 102
comparisons with Balthus, Cornell, Picasso, 1,2, 5, 21, 151, 181, 183, 191
doll theme, 99
eroticism of compared to Henry Miller,79
engineering studies, 77
The Father (1936), 86, 102
father, Hans, Sr., 86, 88
impressions of, by Roland Penrose, 79,
124
Memories of the Doll Theme (1934), 84, 86, 90, 91, 93 mother, death of 87 and Nabokov, 79 obsession with adolescent sexual games, 92 La Poupee, 77
psychologists, reading of, 101 Die Puppe, 92
Schnell, Margarete, relationship with, 82
Mitrani, Nora, and, 83 retrospective, 1971-2 Paris, 77 sadism, 100 self description, 92 thoughts on psychic pain, 84 transvestitism, 90 Zurn, Unica and, 85 bondage series, 86 DoubleCephalopod—Self-Portrait with Unica Zurn (1955), 85 Benjamin, Jessica, 187 Besdine, Matthew, 186, 193 betrayal, 46, 50, 185 biochemistry, brain, 17, 18 biographers, biography
psychobiographic materials and, 5, 11,
14, 129
of Picasso, 25, 28, 35, 42, 47, 50, 51, 54, 57,
of Balthus, 106 of Bellmer, 83, 86 of Cornell, 139 Winnicott, 96 bipolar, 34, 47 Bowlby, John, 19, 183, 187 Attachment and Loss, 6-7 creativity 14
boxes. See Cornell, Joseph Blanchard, Therese
model for Balthus, 121, 125 Bluebeard complex, 51, 57 Breton, Andre, 3, 46 Bellmer and, 90, 94 Cornell and, 148, 151, 155, 163, 164, 169
Carrol, Lewis (Charles Dodgson), 108,
117, 119
Caws, Mary Ann (editor of Cornell’s journals) 142, 143, 147, 156, 179 censors, censorship, 108, 182 character, disorders of, 5 child development, 7, 18 child-rearing, 186. See also mothering, parenting childhood, 2-4
and A/C classification, 11-3, 25, 26, 30
and Adult Attachment Interview, and 9
artists, source for, 3 of Balthus, 114, 117, 118, 120, 121, 128, 133, 135
of Bellmer, 77, 78, 80, 82-3, 87,97, 99, 102
of Cornell, 140-2,145, 147, 150, 152, 155, 164, 169, 176 of Dora Maar 48 pedophiles and 109, 132 n10
perversion and trauma, 110 of Marina Picasso 57,
Picasso, of 31, 34, 36, 50, 52, 56-7, 59, 63-4, 66
of Marie-Therese Walter, 44 Winnicott, Donald, 96-7. See also creativity.
Chodorow, Nancy, 186, 187 Christian Science. See Cornell, Joseph. collector, collecting, 62, 135, 147, 148, 169, 175, 179 control, controlling
Balthus, 113-4, 116, 123, 128, Cornell, 144, 148, 159, 173, 176,
177
Bellmer, 77, 86, 87, 90, 107, 108, Picasso, 26, 32, 33, 36, 42, 45, 54, 63, 66
Roque, Jacqueline 53, sleep as, 125
women and, 13, 14, 187, 190 Cornell, Helen Ten Broeck Storms, 139, 144, 152, 153 childhood, 139
and Joseph’s relations with other women and, 156, 179 Cornell, Joseph
and American Romanticism, 160 anxiety of, described by sister Elizabeth, 144
avoidance, factors contributing to, 145 Bebe Marie, 141, 147, 148, 169, 176 biographer of, Deborah Solomon, 140, 147, 155, 156 birds, 161
in box constructions, 142, 153, 0, 166,168,169,174
boxes
descriptions of, 141, 166, 168 female figures in, 169 Sequestered Bower, Bebe Marie, 141, 147, 148, 151, 169, 176, 180
mood regulators, 156, 168
motivation for construction, 169 celestial objects,
in box constructions, 149, 166, 170 childhood, 150
Christian Science and, 144, 152, 157, 158, 161, 162, 171, 173, 176, 177, 179
collages, 82, 141, 142, 144, 151, 155,
157, 168, 171, 177 commercial successes, 175 comparison with Balthus, Bellmer,
Picasso, 4, 5, 10, 21 cycling and transcendence, 143, 144, 160
dancers, fascination with, 147, 159 defensive protection, 176 Deserted Perch, and loss of father, 140 Dutch lineage, 139, 163, 166 dysthymia, 171 female friends, 171 French ancestry of, 143, 160 girls, obsessions with, 140, 147, 148, 151, 159, 161, 177
Homage to the Romantic Ballet, Hotel de I’Etoile, and Medici Prince Series as uplifting, 141 loss of father, 176 losses and emotionality, 150 melancholia and, 144 mother, death of, 154 movie stars, fascination with, 147,
177
music, as mood regulator, 142, 147, 153, 155, 162, 164-68, 171, 177 nature as mood regulator, 142, 144, 145,
158, 159, 160, 162, 166, 170, 173, 174-7
obsessive behavior of, 146 play, 140, 164, 171 pornography, 148 possible influences of Dutch
perspective boxes, 163 psychosomatic illnesses, 144, 152, 157 Robert (brother), care of, 141, 145, 149-58, 168, 177
relationship with mother, 151, 155, 176, 177
Rose Hobart film, 147, 163 sexuality of, 156 Surrealism and, 139, 141, 156 transcendent thoughts, 159, 161, 174 Utopia Parkway house, 141, 144, 179 women, relations with, 146 women, representations of idealized, 147, 148, 156, 168 writings of, 142-45, 149, 158, 161, 174, 175
and mental state, 171 Kusama, Yayoi and, 156 Cornell, Joseph (senior, father of Joseph), 139, 141, 166
Cornell, Robert (brother of Joseph), 141, 149, 150-8, 168, 177 cerebral palsy of, 145 creativity, 2, 9, 16, 17, 114, 129, 142, 156, 166, 190
attachment and, 9, 11, 98 object creation and, 12 play as, 2, 6, 8, 18, 33, 97-99, 109, 140, 150, 160, 168, 171 theories of, 11, 14, 188 criticism, art, 3, 61, 63, 78 Crittenden, Patricia, 9, 10, 13, 15, 39, 187 Dali, Salvador, 163, 172