Then and Now Fifty Years of Assemblage

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 Nowsurveys his earliest documented work alongside recent works, and is the most substantial publication on Herms.Herms, George is the author of 'Then and Now Fifty Years of Assemblage', published 2003 under ISBN 9780971928909 and ISBN 0971928908.