assemblage

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

His postmortem portraits, nearly 30 of which are reproduced in “The Harlem Book of the Dead,” are artistic assemblages that honor the dead and the community’s funerary traditions.

“The leaders of the American resistance were not utopian visionaries but, rather, an assemblage of pragmatic statesmen accustomed to negotiating the space between ideals and realities,” Mr. Ellis writes.

The exhibition brings together 58 sculptures from a group of over 600 that is not only the most important private assemblage of this work anywhere, but one of the art world’s best-kept secrets.

An exception is a small Loewe bucket bag inspired by Josef’s early glass assemblage experiments when he was a Bauhaus student, which abounds with glass bobbles and haptic surprise.