Robert Rauschenberg

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The early 1950s, when Robert Rauschenberg launched his career, used to be the heyday of the heroic gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. Rauschenberg challenged this tradition, inventing new intermedia forms of art making that shaped the decades to come. Published along side the inaugural 21st-century retrospective of this defining figure, this book offers fresh perspectives on Rauschenberg’s widely celebrated Combines (1954–64) and silkscreen paintings (1962–64). It also illuminates lesser-known periods within Rauschenberg’s career, including his work of the early 1950s and that from the late 1960s onward, now compelling and prescient to up to date eyes.
Sixteen short essays by eminent scholars and emerging new writers center of attention on specific moments within Rauschenberg’s career, examining his creative production across an bizarre range of media. Integrating new scholarship, documentary imagery and archival materials, Robert Rauschenberg is the first comprehensive catalogue of the artist’s career in 20 years, a very powerful contribution to American cultural and intellectual history across disciplines and a necessary volume for any individual interested in art of the current day.
Over the span of six decades, Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) worked in an astonishing range of mediums including painting, sculpture, prints, photography and performance, and became some of the transformative figures in postwar American culture. Working on my own and in collaboration with artists, dancers, musicians and writers, Rauschenberg produced a vast body of work that continues to resonate today.

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