Marc Lancet on Assemblage: Hints, guidelines, suggestions, dos and don'ts.

Assemblage is a subtle and powerful art form. Here Marc Lancet offers some suggestions. Marc describes materials and their uses in terms of low profile, high profile, and suggests that every material has a language with which it communicates to the viewer. Marc offers some dos and don'ts. Assemblage can be a meaningful, expressive, and constantly invigorating art form. Marc talks of the art of George Herms, Bette Saar, Joseph Cornell and Kurt Schwitters. He shows examples of his one assemblage to illustrate some of the principles he is describing.