Hoving, Kirsten. JOSEPH CORNELL and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars. xx and 307 pages, roughly 60 color and 80 b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2008.
This book explores why astronomy captivated Cornell, and considers hundreds of his works--found-footage films, three-dimensional space-object boxes, enigmatic collages, and cosmic ephemera--that contain references to astronomical phenomena.