Tim Noble and Sue Webster, ‘Dirty White Trash (with gulls)’, 1998. Six months’ worth of artists’ trash, 2 taxidermy seagulls.
When French artist Jean Dubuffet coined the term ‘assemblage’ in the 1950s to describe artworks created by combining everyday objects, he was drawing on a rich tradition established early in the 20th century: the collages of cubists Picasso and Braques and Futurist sculptural works by Boccioni and Marinetti.
