@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {4988},
      author = {Brittenham, Claudia},
      title = {The Art of Assemblage at La Venta},
      journal = {Art History},
      address = {2022-10-11},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {How might the meaning of monumental sculpture be  ephemeral? At La Venta, objects from greenstone figurines  to massive basalt sculptures were recycled, reworked, and  moved around the landscape, their new configurations and  associations creating new kinds of meaning and enabling new  kinds of ritual interaction. This essay considers the  assemblage, and not just the individual work, as an  important category of art-historical analysis. By  considering the divergent materialities of stelae, celts,  figurines, and colossal heads, as well as the role that  ephemeral materials played in the construction of ritually  significant assemblages, I explore the connections between  monumentality, memory, and forgetting at La Venta.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/4988},
}