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Readymade Assemblage

STUDENT WORK

SPRING, 2011

Terms to know:

Assemblage: an artistic composition made from scraps, junk, and odds and ends (as of paper, cloth, wood, stone, or metal) (webster.com)

Found object: A natural object or an artifact not originally intended as art, found and considered to have aesthetic value. Also called objet trouvé. (answers.com)

Readymade: noun. An everyday manufactured object, as a bottle rack, a snow shovel, a urinal, or a comb, that may by the creative act of selection and designation by an artist attain status as a work of art: associated almost exclusively with the aesthetic activities of Marcel Duchamp during the period 1915 to 1917. (dictionary.com)

Dumpster divers: Artists use discarded materials to create works of found art or assemblage.[9] Students may use salvaged high tech items in technical projects. Still others may dumpster dive just to indulge in their curiosity for unusual items.[10] (wikopedia)

Hybrid: 1. an animal or plant resulting from a cross between genetically unlike individuals. Hybrids between different species are usually sterile
2. anything of mixed ancestry
3. a vehicle that is powered by an internal-combustion engine and another source of power such as a battery
4. a word, part of which is derived from one language and part from another, such as monolingual, which has a prefix of Greek origin and a root of Latin origin
5. (of a vehicle) powered by more than one source
6. denoting or being a hybrid; of mixed origin
7. physics (of an electromagnetic wave) having components of both electric and magnetic field vectors in the direction of propagation
8. electronics
a. (of a circuit) consisting of transistors and valves
b. Compare monolithic (of an integrated circuit) consisting of one or more fully integrated circuits and other components, attached to a ceramic substrate

[C17: from Latin hibrida offspring of a mixed union (human or animal)]

Irony: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning (webster.com)

One liner: A one-liner is a joke that is delivered in a single line. A good one-liner is said to be pithy.[1] one layer deep (wikopedia.com)

ARTISTS TO RESEARCH:

HANS BELLEMER

TERRY ADKINS

MARCEL DUCHAMP

JOSEPH CORNELL

ROBERT RAUSHENBURG

EDWARD KIENHOLZ

GRED COLSON

DUFALA BROTHERS

CHRIS VORHEES