About The Book
Robert Rauschenberg’s engagement with photography began in the late 1940s under the tutelage of Hazel Larsen Archer at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Without photography, much of Rauschenberg’s oeuvre would scarcely exist. This publication includes portraits of friends such as Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham and John Cage, studio shots, photographs used in the Combines and Silkscreen paintings, photographs of lost artworks and works in process. Publisher’s Info
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About The Artist
Working in a wide range of subjects, styles, materials, and techniques, Robert Rauschenberg has been called a forerunner of essentially every postwar movement since Abstract Expressionism. He remained, however, independent of any particular affiliation. At the time that he began making art in the late 1940s and early 1950s, his belief that “painting relates to both art and life” presented a direct challenge to the prevalent modernist aesthetic.
The celebrated Combines, begun in the mid-1950s, brought real-world images and objects into the realm of abstract painting and countered sanctioned divisions between painting and sculpture. These works established the artist’s ongoing dialogue between mediums, between the handmade and the readymade, and between the gestural brushstroke and the mechanically reproduced image.
From Julia Blaut, “Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective,” @Guggenheim (Fall 1997).
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Specifics
Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs 1949-1962 (Thames & Hudson, 2011) | Extent: 232 pages | Format: Hardback | Size: 28.0 x 23.9 cm.
Source: https://archive.org/details/robertrauschenbe00raus_10
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