George Herms: Then and Now
Subtitle: Fifty Years of Assemblage
Contributors: Walter Hopps (Contributor); Charles Simic (Contributor)
Publisher: Seraphin Gallery
Published: April 2, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780971928909
Subjects: Individual artists; Popular Culture - General; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Individual Artist; Art / Individual Artist
Description: One of the founding members of the California Assemblage movement in the 1950s (alongside Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner and Jess), George Herms uses the most weather-worn, battered, junked-up materials for his assemblages, forging a style that was to greatly influence Pop art in America and presage Nouveau Realisme in France. Herms pushes the limits of assemblage to exciting extremes, making gentle, sometimes funny statements. "Then and Now" surveys his earliest documented work alongside recent works, and is the most substantial publication on Herms.