Drager Meurtant's Posts - The International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists2024-03-29T08:35:31ZDrager Meurtanthttp://collagesociety.ning.com/profile/DragerMeurtanthttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2531207166?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://collagesociety.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=328nkxbst0bk5&xn_auth=noHistoric assemblagestag:collagesociety.ning.com,2013-12-11:3635092:BlogPost:612212013-12-11T17:39:31.000ZDrager Meurtanthttp://collagesociety.ning.com/profile/DragerMeurtant
<p>Many of us think that assemblages were first constructed one century ago, when Pablo Picasso<br></br>created cubist constructions. Other names, attached to the art form are Marcel Duchamp,<br></br>Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg, Kurt Schwitters and (first using the name of<br></br>assemblage) Jean Dubuffet. For a more complete listing of 20th century assemblagists, see<br></br>wikipedia: Artists_primarily_known_for_assemblage.<br></br>But, looking from a different perspective, assemblages were created…</p>
<p>Many of us think that assemblages were first constructed one century ago, when Pablo Picasso<br/>created cubist constructions. Other names, attached to the art form are Marcel Duchamp,<br/>Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg, Kurt Schwitters and (first using the name of<br/>assemblage) Jean Dubuffet. For a more complete listing of 20th century assemblagists, see<br/>wikipedia: Artists_primarily_known_for_assemblage.<br/>But, looking from a different perspective, assemblages were created much earlier. And - as<br/>demonstrated in a recent article in PLOS One (May 1st, 2013, Soledad Domingo et al), at the<br/>basis were even non-human mammalian species. <br/>Thus, archeologists from the USA and Spain, have found so-called carnivoran assemblages in<br/>caves (called Battalones-1) in mountain areas of Spain, giving the chance to provide<br/>information of presence and diversity of animals that lived there long ago. The animals, are<br/>believed, got trapped, probably after chosen entry (searching for cadavers of other animals, for water, or<br/>a hide-out?), in a cave and died.. . Many skeletal remains - preserved in the dry conditions -<br/>have been found and classified. Prominent taxa are sabertoothed cats. The period: Late<br/>Miocene or more than 10 million years ago.<br/><br/>Note, in archeology, the presence of different components at sites, are also seen as<br/>assemblages. <br/><br/>Origin of an Assemblage Massively Dominated by Carnivorans from the Miocene of Spain<br/>M. Soledad Domingo, M. Teresa Alberdi, Beatriz Azanza, Pablo G. Silva, Jorge Morales<br/>PLOS One, May 01, 2013, DOI: 10.1371</p>