Robert Rauschenberg

  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg Sara Sinclair, Peter Bearman, Mary Marshall Clark, 2019-08-06 Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in works called combines, and collaborated with engineers and scientists to challenge our thinking about art. Through collaborations with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and others, Rauschenberg bridged the music, dance, and visual-art worlds, inventing a new art for the last half of the twentieth century. Robert Rauschenberg is a work of collaborative oral biography that tells the story of one of the twentieth century’s great artists through a series of interviews with key figures in his life—family, friends, former lovers, professional associates, studio assistants, and collaborators. The oral historian Sara Sinclair artfully puts the narrators’ reminiscences in conversation, with a focus on the relationship between Rauschenberg’s intense social life and his art. The book opens with a prologue by Rauschenberg’s sister and then shifts to New York City’s 1950s and ’60s art scene, populated by the luminaries of abstract expressionism. It follows Rauschenberg’s eventual move to Florida’s Captiva Island and his trips across the globe, illuminating his inner life and its effect on his and others’ art. The narrators share their views on Rauschenberg’s work, explore the curatorial thinking behind exhibitions of his art, and reflect on the impact of the influx of money into the contemporary art market. Included are artists famous in their own right, such as Laurie Anderson and Brice Marden, as well as art-world insiders and lesser-known figures who were part of Rauschenberg’s inner circle. Beyond considering Rauschenberg as an artist, this book reveals him as a man embedded in a series of art worlds over the course of a long and rich life, demonstrating the complex interaction of business and personal, public and private in the creation of great art.
  robert rauschenberg: Selections from the Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg Robert Storr, 2012-09-25 The accompanying volume to an exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg’s personal collection, held at Gagosian Gallery, New York. Expanding upon the exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York (2011), this book doubles as an accompanying reader and features works by over sixty-five artists from Rauschenberg’s collection, including Joseph Beuys, Mathew Brady, Alexander Calder, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, Henri Matisse, Ed Ruscha, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol. Art historian and scholar Robert Storr contributes an essay focusing on Rauschenberg’s inspirations, friendships, and affinities as well as their myriad of interrelations. Biographies of each artist written by Mimi Thompson complement the illustrations of artworks and rare archival photographs, and show the influence of the artist’s work within Rauschenberg’s unique collection.
  robert rauschenberg: The Great Migrator Hiroko Ikegami, Robert Rauschenberg, 2010 Unlike other writers, who have viewed the export of American art during the 1950s and 1960s as another form of Cold War propagandizing (and famous American artists as cultural imperialists), Ikegami sees the global rise of American art as a cross-cultural phenomenon in which each art community Rauschenberg visited was searching in different ways for cultural and artistic identity in the midst of Americanization. Rauschenberg's travels and collaborations established a new kind of transnational network for the postwar art world---prefiguring the globalization of art before the era of globalization. --
  robert rauschenberg: Off the Wall Calvin Tomkins, 2005-11-29 This book chronicles the creative period of the 1950s and 1960s, a high point in American art. In his collaborations with Merce Cunningham and John Cage, and as a pivotal figure linking abstract expressionism and pop art, Robert Rauschenberg was part of a revolution during which artists moved art off the walls of museums and galleries and into the center of the social scene. Rauschenberg's vitally important and productive career spans this revolution, reaching beyond it to the present day. The book features the artists and the art world surrounding Rauschenberg--from Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning to Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol, together with dealers Betty Parsons, and Leo Castelli, and the patron Peggy Guggenheim.
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg Leah Dickerman, Achim Borchardt-Hume, Yve-Alain Bois, 2016 Published in conjunction with the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg, at Tate Modern, London (December 1, 2016-April 2, 2017), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (May 21-September 4, 2017), and the San Fancisco Museum of Modern Art (November 4, 2017-March 25, 2018).
  robert rauschenberg: Black Paintings Stephanie Rosenthal, Haus der Kunst München, 2006 Ende der 1940er-Jahre beschäftigten sich berühmte Künstler der New York School - Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella und Barnett Newman - intensiv mit der Farbe Schwarz. Es entstand eine erstaunliche Anzahl von nahezu monochromen schwarzen Bildserien, die heute zu den Glanzstücken international bedeutender Sammlungen wie dem Whitney Museum in New York zählen und in Black Paintings erstmals vereint gezeigt werden. Die Publikation mit einem fundierten Essay von Stephanie Rosenthal beleuchtet Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten der im New York der Nachkriegszeit entstandenen Werke und verfolgt die Frage, welche Bedeutung sie im gesamten Schaffen der Künstler einnehmen. Einen der Ausgangspunkte des Buches bildet dabei die These, dass die schwarzen Gemälde für Durchbrüche und Übergänge im OEuvre der Maler stehen. (Englische Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-7757-1860-8) Ausstellung: Haus der Kunst, München 15.9.2006-14.1.2007
  robert rauschenberg: Perpetual Inventory Rosalind E. Krauss, 2010 Collection of essays spanning three decades of the writings of Rosalind E. Krauss.
  robert rauschenberg: Rauschenberg Mary Lynn Kotz, 2004-11-16 A revised edition of a retrospective on the Venice Biennale grand prize-winning artist incorporates the last ten years of his career including his retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim in 1997, in a lavishly illustrated portrait that traces his early years, the creation of his famous combines, his work with new technologies, and the establishment of ROCI. 15,000 first printing.
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg Branden W. Joseph, 2002-12-06 Critical essays on the artist Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on the important period of his development in the 1950s and 1960s. From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work in opposition to Clement Greenberg's rigid formalism, Robert Rauschenberg has played a pivotal role in the development and understanding of postmodern art. Challenging nearly all the prevailing assumptions about the visual arts of his time, he pioneered the postwar revival of collage, photography, silkscreen, technology, and performance.This book focuses on Rauschenberg's work during the critical period of the 1950s and 1960s. It opens with a newly prefaced version of Leo Steinberg's Reflections on the State of Criticism, the first published version of his famous 1972 essay, Other Criteria, which remains the single most important text on Rauschenberg. Rosalind Krauss's Rauschenberg and the Materialized Image builds on Steinberg's essay, arguing that Rauschenberg's work represents a decisive shift in contemporary art. Douglas Crimp's On the Museum's Ruins examines Rauschenberg's silkscreens in the context of the modern museum. Helen Molesworth's Before Bed uses psychoanalytic and economic structures to examine the artist's Black Paintings of the early 1950s. A second essay by Krauss, Perpetual Inventory, revisits both her and Steinberg's articles of nearly twenty-five years earlier. Finally, Branden Joseph's A Duplication Containing Duplications views Rauschenberg's silkscreens in relation to the artist's interests in technology, particularly television.
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg, 2011 This volume gathers and surveys Rauschenberg's numerous uses of photography for the first time. It includes portraits of friends, studio shots, photographs used in the Combines series, silkscreens, photographs of lost works and works in progress, allowing us to re-imagine almost the entirety of the artist's work.
  robert rauschenberg: Rauschenberg Leah Dickerman, 2013 In the mid-1950s Robert Rauschenberg began making what he called Combines--Radically experimental works that mix paint and other art materials with things found in daily life. These hybrid creations offered a dramatic counterpoint to the gestural abstraction that prevailed in contemporary American painting. Canyon (1959), one of the artist's best-known Combines, is a large canvas bearing paint, a postcard, a man's shirt, photographs, newspaper clippings, wood, a flattened metal can and paint tube, a piece of glass, and, thrusting out from its surface, a stuffed bald eagle. Leah Dickerman's essay examines the genesis of this startling and enigmatic work and positions it within a key period in Rauschenberg's groundbreaking career.--Publisher's description.
  robert rauschenberg: Off the Wall Calvin Tomkins, 1980 Looks at the personalities who have shaped modern American art from the founding of the Museum of Modern Art and the rise of abstract expressionism to the explosion of styles that began in the 1960s
  robert rauschenberg: On the Museum's Ruins Douglas Crimp, 1993 What determines the significance of a work of art? Doe it abide eternally within the work? Or is it continually constructed and reconstructed from the outside, through the work's presentation? The historical shift from autonomous modernist object to postmodernist critique of institutions, from artwork to discursive context, is the subject of Douglas Crimp's essays and Louise Lawler's photographs in On the Museum's Ruins. Taking the museum as paradigmatic institution of artistic modernism, Crimp surveys its historical origins and current transformations. The new paradigm of postmodernism is elaborated through analyses of art practices broadly conceived--not only the practices of artists but also those of critics and curators, of international exhibitions, and of new or refurbished museums.--back cover.
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg,
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg - Jammers Alexander Keefe, David Anfam, Robert Rauschenberg, Gagosian Gallery (London, England), David White, 2013-05 Even though the Jammers] are still quite romantic, my job was to impose a great amount of restraint upon myself.Nearly everything that I could think to do previously would have violated what these pieces wanted to be. And so with the fabrics, it was another kind of adventure, almost like going out and picking up garbage.-Robert Rauschenberg Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present Robert Rauschenberg's Jammers.
  robert rauschenberg: Photographs Robert Rauschenberg, 1981 Spine title: Rauschenberg photographs.
  robert rauschenberg: Fast Forward Jodi Hauptman, Samantha Friedman, Michael Rooks, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), 2012 Presents works from six key years in the history of modern art: 1913, 1929, 1950, 1961, and 1988. These include paintings, sculptures, drawings, multiples, photographs, graphic design, film and video.
  robert rauschenberg: Reading American Art Professor and Department Head of Art & Art History Elizabeth Milroy, 1998-01-01 This anthology brings together twenty outstanding works of recent scholarship on the history of the visual arts in the United States from the colonial period to 1945. The selected essays--all written within the past two decades--reflect the interdisciplinary character of current art historiography in America and the variety of approaches that contribute to the dynamism in the field. The authors take up diverse subjects--from colonial portraits to nineteenth-century sculptures of women to photographic images of New York--and invite those with a general knowledge of the history of American art to think more deeply about art and culture. Employing many interpretive methodologies, including iconology, social history, structuralism, psychobiography, and feminist theory, the contributors to this volume combine close analysis of specific art objects or groups of objects with discussion of how these works of art operated within their cultural contexts. The authors consider the works of such artists as John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Jackson Pollock as they assess how paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs have carried meaning within American society. And they investigate how the conceptualization, production, and presentation of works of art both inform and are informed by prevailing attitudes toward the role of the arts and the artist in American culture.
  robert rauschenberg: Other Criteria Leo Steinberg, 2007-11-15 Leo Steinberg’s classic Other Criteria comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from “Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public” and the “flatbed picture plane” to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The latter, which Francine du Plessix Gray called “a tour de force of critical method,” is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of the Johns’s work ever written. This edition includes a new preface and a handful of additional illustrations. “The art book of the year, if not of the decade and possibly of the century. . . .The significance of this volume lies not so much in the quality of its insights—although the quality is very high and the insights are important—as in the richness, precision, and elegance of its style. . . . A meeting with the mind of Leo Steinberg is one of the most enlightening experiences that contemporary criticism affords.” —Alfred Frankenstein, Art News “Not only one of the most lucid and independent minds among art critics, but a profound one.”—Robert Motherwell
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg, J. Richard Gruber, 1997
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg Leah Dickerman, Achim Borchardt-Hume, Yve-Alain Bois, 2016 The first US artist to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1963, Robert Rauschenberg (1925?2008) blazed a new trail for art in the second half of the twentieth century. Bringing together a selection of key works from different periods, the book will provide a long overdue opportunity to discover a remarkably consistent artistic trajectory which steadfastly refused to be straight-jacketed0by rules and conventions. 0Each chapter of Rauschenberg?s six-decade career will be represented by major works. Introduced by Leah Dickerman, this book collects fourteen essays focusing on key moments in Rauschenberg?s oeuvre. With personal and touching contributions by those who knew him, this richly illustrated publication is an essential reference to one of the most compelling and unique voices in twentieth-century art, as well as a significant contribution to the field of international modernism.00Exhibition: Tate Modern, London, UK (01.12.2016 - 02.04.2017) / MoMA, New York, USA (16.05. - 04.09.2017) / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA (04.11.2017 - 25.03.2018)
  robert rauschenberg: A Year from Monday John Cage, 1969 Lectures, essays, diaries and other writings.
  robert rauschenberg: Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg, Barbara Rose, 1987
  robert rauschenberg: The Spectacle of Skill Robert Hughes, 2016-11-29 Over the course of his distinguished career, Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty about art, architecture, culture, religion—and himself. The Spectacle of Skill brings together some of his most unforgettable pieces, culled from nine of his most widely read and important books, alongside never-before-published pages from his unfinished second volume of memoirs. Showcasing Hughes’s enormous range, this indispensable anthology offers a uniquely cohesive view of both the critic and the man.
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg, 1980
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg, a Retrospective Walter Hopps, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Davidson, Trisha Brown, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1997 A retrospective of the artist's work.
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg Carolyn Lanchner, 2009 Survey of important works in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
  robert rauschenberg: Rauschenberg Currents Robert Rauschenberg, 1970
  robert rauschenberg: Tate Introductions: Robert Rauschenberg Ed Krcma, 2017-04-11 A lively and accessible introduction to the life and work of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), one of the most inventive and influential artists of the post-war period. An important influence on Pop artists in the 1960s, Rauschenberg worked across a variety of media - painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, silkscreen, lithography, and performance - and actively collaborated with musicians, choreographers and dancers, and with engineers and scientists to pursue the potentials offered by new technologies. Part of the Tate Introduction series, this book offers a concise and engaging account of Rauschenberg's life, his art, and the ongoing debates concerning his significance.
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg : art/life James Cahill, Gagosian Gallery (London), 2013-09-15 Reviews 'Jammers' by the celebrated American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), in an exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street London, from 16th February to 28th March 2013. The series comes from a month in 1975 when the artist worked in an Ashram (textile factory) in Ahmedabad, India.
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism Gavin Parkinson, 2023-03-23 The art of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is usually viewed as quite distinct from Surrealism, a movement which the artist himself displayed some hostility towards. However, Rauschenberg had a very positive reception among Surrealists, particularly across the period 1959-69. In the face of Rauschenberg's avowals of his own 'literalism' and insistence on his art as 'facts,' this book gathers generous evidence of the poetic, metaphorical, allusive, associative and connotative dimensions of the artist's oeuvre as identified by Surrealists, and thus extrapolates new readings from Rauschenberg's key works on that basis. By viewing Rauschenberg's art against the expansion of the cultural influence of the United States in Europe in the period after the Second World War and the increasingly politicized activities of the Surrealists in the era of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism shows how poetic inference of the artist's work was turned towards political interpretation. By analysing Rauschenberg's art in the context of Surrealism, and drawing from it new interpretations and perspectives, this volume simultaneously situates the Surrealist movement in 1960s American art criticism and history.
  robert rauschenberg: Rauschenberg - Posters Marc Gundel, Robert Rauschenberg, 2001 This stunning book brings together sixty of Rauschenberg's most exciting posters.
  robert rauschenberg: Inside New York's Art World Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, 1979 ...[P]rovides a rare opportunity to understand the city's artistic momentum through a series of interviews with some of the leaders of that world --Back cover.
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg, Cornelia Faist, Alfred Kren, Aktionsforum Praterinsel (Munich, Germany), 1997 In the 1960s, American Robert Rauschenberg created a group of spectacular, technologically oriented works, the highlights of which are presented and documented in depth in this catalogue. A review by Billy Kluver, engineer, art expert and electronic arts connoisseur and an essay by American art historian Catherine Craft, show Rauschenberg to be a - surprisingly contemporary - electronic arts pioneer.
  robert rauschenberg: Rauschenberg Mary Lynn Kotz, 1990-09 In this book - the only fully illustrated account of his life prepared with his full cooperation - we come face to face with Rauschenberg, one of the towering artists of the twentieth century. In addition to the scores of works of art reproduced, are personal photographs of Rauschenberg and his friends and family.
  robert rauschenberg: Things I Didn't Know Robert Hughes, 2010-06-30 Robert Hughes, one of the most illuminating minds ever to have taken on the subjects of art and culture, uses his same critical abilities to give us a brutally intimate account of his early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States. Part memoir, part history lesson, part philosophical tract, Hughes uses his own experiences to examine the nature of art, war, sex, religion, writing and life itself. Piercing, razor-sharp, and above all, fearless, this is by far Hughes's most personal writing to date.
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 1997 Robert Rauschenberg made a tremendous impact on Modern art in the twentieth century. As a pioneer of Pop art, he was a key figure in the postwar tradition that brought American art to the forefront of the international scene. This new volume in the MoMA Artist Series, which explores important artists and favorite works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, guides readers through a dozen of the artist's most memorable achievements. A short and lively essay by Carolyn Lanchner, a former curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum, accompanies each work, illuminating its significance and placing it in its historical moment in the development of Modern art and the artist's own life. This volume provides a unique overview of someone who shaped the development of American art since mid-century and is an excellent resource for readers interested in the stories behind the masterpieces of the Modern canon.
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg, Armin Zweite, Hiltrud Reinhold, 1994
  robert rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Schimmel, Thomas E. Crow, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), 2005 Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Dec. 20, 2005-Apr. 2, 2006 and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, May 14-Sept. 4, 2006. .
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