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Cornell had a tremendous influence on younger artists during his lifetime. His evocative arrangements of objects inspired Robert Rauschenberg's earlyl950s paintings, collages, and assemblages. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, an entire generation of assemblage artists emerged, including Lucas Samaras, who elaborated on Cornell's use of box constructions. Cornell's innovative use of film influenced artists such as Warhol, whereas younger artists admire his conceptual approach and use of reproductions. Cornell was both a conceptualist and an appropriator who was in thrall to his emotions and his fantasies.
Cornell's art gives full expression to the many aspects of his personality. His principal contribution~and the central focus of this study~lies in the development of his "shadow boxes," small-scale box constructions in which pasted papers, reproductions, sand, pipes, and other found objects are assembled in a kind of collage with depth, framed in wood, and usually sealed with glass. Cornell produced a great number of these boxes, many of them undated, as well as numerous variations on individual boxes and repetitions of a single theme in more than one Work. Cornell worked in an elliptical rather than linear fashion. Except for the earlier boxes, which tended to be singular, he worked in series that often played out over a decade or more. He did not discard much, but he was selective.