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Art made by gluing junk together until it means something.
means A collection of things gathered or fitted together into a single whole — whether a sculpture of scavenged parts or a cluster of unrelated objects grouped as one.
from Borrowed from French assemblage, itself from assembler ('to bring together'), tracing back to Latin assimulare/ad- + simul ('together, at the same time'). The French art term entered English usage in the 20th century to describe works built from found objects — a sense that rode in on the same word that simply meant 'a gathering' for centuries before artists got their glue out.
- origin
- French word for putting together, naturally
- key figure
- Joseph Cornell boxed the idea into fame
- vs collage
- collage is flat, this one has depth
- material
- trash, bones, bottle caps all welcome