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American,
b. 1935
Pure XX
circa 1961
Assemblage of found objects
24 x 14.375 x 8.75 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
2002.7
In the late 1950s George Herms and fellow beat generation artists Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, and Edward Kienholz pioneered the genre known as California assemblage. Sharing a philosophy promoted by beat poet Allen Ginsberg in his groundbreaking poem “Howl,” these artists believed, as Ginsberg put it, that “everything is holy.”
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