Video2015
Assemblage
The Museum of Contemporary Art
Herms, Saar and curator Helen Molesworth discuss how assembling found and discarded objects lets an artist carry a history and a politics that paint alone cannot.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Visual Arts · Sculpture & Three-Dimensional Art
A topic within Sculpture & Three-Dimensional Art, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Visual Arts.
2 works
The Museum of Contemporary Art
Herms, Saar and curator Helen Molesworth discuss how assembling found and discarded objects lets an artist carry a history and a politics that paint alone cannot.
link checked 17 Sept 2026William C. Seitz
The catalogue that named assemblage as a movement, arguing that collage's incorporation of real objects into art had by the 1960s become a major strand of practice running from Schwitters to Rauschenberg.
link checked 17 Sept 2026