{"id":50119,"date":"2022-03-10T11:18:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T16:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=50119"},"modified":"2022-03-10T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T16:39:41","slug":"dream-by-george-herms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2022\/03\/dream-by-george-herms.html","title":{"rendered":"‘Dream’ by George Herms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Where does George Herms and his 1985 assemblage “Dream” fit in the continuum of 20th-century art and artists? After reading “The Nature of Art”<\/a> by Armand Marie Leroi this morning, and after having a look at the Connect Vermeer<\/a> website, I wondered whether a similar analysis could be done about Herms and “Dream.” I’m told the piece was recently acquired at auction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Made in 1985. Titled DREAM and signed on back<\/em><\/em>. (24 1\/2 \u00d7 21 1\/2 \u00d7 6 1\/2 in.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Wikipedia entry<\/a> on Herms quotes the curator Walter Hopps, who “placed Herms on a dazzling continuum of assemblage artists that includes Picasso, Schwitters, Duchamp, Joseph Cornell, Wallace Berman, and Edward Kienholz. Any thoughts out there about narrowing that focus or changing it, say, to literature? For example, how about Delmore Schwartz’s well-known short story “In Dreams Begin Responsibility.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where does George Herms and his 1985 assemblage “Dream” fit in the continuum of American art? After reading “The Nature of Art” by Armand Marie Leroi and having a look at the Connect Vermeer website, I wondered whether a similar analysis could be done about Herms and “Dream.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dream-by-george-herms-from-Richard-A-enh540-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-d2n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50187,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50119\/revisions\/50187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}