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assemblage
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assemblage

The process of putting together the purchase,or options for the purchase,of several small parcels from multiple owners in order to create a larger parcel of land.The goal is to obtain enough land for a particular development in mind, or to conduct the assemblage as a speculative venture,in order to sell the larger parcel for more money than it cost to purchase the smaller parcels. This increase in value due to the assemblage is called plottage value.



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The gallery was started on La Cienega Boulevard in 1957 by the bombastic assemblagist Ed Kienholz and the flakily brilliant art historian Walter Hopps.
He's not an assemblagist like Alfonso Ossorio, and he doesn't make accumulations the way Arman does.
But it's suggestive to recall how Aby Warburg sought to stretch the limits of art history with something like a Dada methodology--with an assemblagist intellectual process.
 
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