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Robert Rauschenberg / Catherine Craft.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Phaidon focusPublication details: London, U.K. ; New York, NY : Phaidon Press, 2013.Description: 145 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780714861517
  • 0714861510
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 759.13 RAU
Contents:
Acting in the gap between art and life -- The early years : from Texas to New York -- Photography -- Monochromes and experimental works -- Erased de Kooning drawing -- The Combines -- Monogram -- Transfer drawings, printmaking and the silkscreen paintings -- Dante\'s Inferno -- Barge -- Beyond painting : the late 1960s and early 1970s -- Technology -- Performance -- Fabric -- Return to painting and photography -- Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Exchange (ROCI) -- Bible Bike (Borealis).
Summary: The work of Robert Rauschenberg has had a profound impact on avant-garde art from the 1950s onwards. A pioneer of multimedia are, this book explores his experimentations from his Combines (works melding painting and sculpture), prints, silkscreen paintings to his use of technology and his collaborations with choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown. This book explores his work.
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 759.13 RAU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100466987

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The perfect introduction to the life and work of Robert Rauschenberg

Includes bibliographical references (page 145).

Acting in the gap between art and life -- The early years : from Texas to New York -- Photography -- Monochromes and experimental works -- Erased de Kooning drawing -- The Combines -- Monogram -- Transfer drawings, printmaking and the silkscreen paintings -- Dante\'s Inferno -- Barge -- Beyond painting : the late 1960s and early 1970s -- Technology -- Performance -- Fabric -- Return to painting and photography -- Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Exchange (ROCI) -- Bible Bike (Borealis).

The work of Robert Rauschenberg has had a profound impact on avant-garde art from the 1950s onwards. A pioneer of multimedia are, this book explores his experimentations from his Combines (works melding painting and sculpture), prints, silkscreen paintings to his use of technology and his collaborations with choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown. This book explores his work.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Catherine Craft's interest in Rauschenberg's art emerged from her involvement as a research assistant for an exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC in 1992. An independent scholar specializing in modern and contemporary art, she was a contributing author to the exhibition catalogue Robert Rauschenberg: Haywire - Major Technological Works of the 1960sin 1997, and is also the author of An Audience of Artists: Dada, Neo-Dada, and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism(2012). Additionally, she has written articles on newly discovered, unpublished writings by Rauschenberg, published in Art in Americaand The Burlington Magazine. She is the Adjunct Assistant Curator for Research and Exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas.

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