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assemblage

[uh-sem-blij, a-sahn-blazh] / əˈsɛm blɪdʒ, a sɑ̃ˈblaʒ /


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Though she’s skilled at painting and photography, she’s most widely known for assemblage, the art of juxtaposing miscellaneous items to form a single cohesive work.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

This makes it the most genetically diverse assemblage of seasonal killifish ever documented anywhere in the world.

From Science Daily • Dec. 25, 2025

The book includes a vast assemblage of band member recollections as collected by Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville.

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2025

At Socrates, examples include “A Sea In-MOTION,” a star-shaped assemblage of bamboo fences by the Pioneers Go East Collective; and Natalia Nakazawa’s part-buckyball, part-yurt “Dome Cartographies.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

“Holism” suggests something biologically transcendental because of “holy,” although it was intended more simply to mean a complete assemblage of living units.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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