Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00106

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Robert Rauschenberg, one of the most prolific and influential artists of the postwar period, has created an astonishing variety of works during a career spanning more than fifty years. To illuminate the meaning of Rauschenberg’s art and the reasons behind his artistic choices, Robert Mattison in this book focuses closely on a small selection of the artist’s projects. Mattison offers an interpretation of Rauschenberg’s output that is both original and uniquely insightful, based on extensive research and first-hand observation of the artist at work in his studio.

Like Rauschenberg’s own work, the book ranges across a variety of disciplines. Mattison relates the artist’s output to the visual arts, politics, technology, dance, urban theory, and other intriguing contemporary issues. The book examines Rauschenberg’s working process, the effect of his dyslexia on his art, his seminal Combine paintings of the 1950s, fascination with the “space race,” and collaboration with well-known choreographer Trisha Brown. A final chapter explores the art Rauschenberg exhibited in Chile during the dangerous and repressive rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet.

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PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date July 2003 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300099317

EISBN 9780300233575

Illustrations 104 illus.

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List of illustrations

Rauschenberg in Captiva studio, Florida with "Scores (Off Kilter Keys)" (1993)
Exterior of Rauschenberg's Captiva Studio, Florida
Architectural plan of Rauschenberg's Captiva Studio, Florida
Score XXIV (Off Kilter Keys)
Score XXIV (Off Kilter Keys), detail
Happy Birthday Baby Leech/ROCI Japan
Score XXIV (Off Kilter Keys), detail
Score XVIII (Off Kilter Keys)
Score XXI (Off Kilter Keys)
Score XVI (Off Kilter Keys)
Fulton Street and Dutch Street, New York City
Fulton Street and Nassau Street, New York City
Robert Rauschenberg in his Fulton Street studio, New York City
Pearl Street at Hanover Square
Untitled [black painting with portal form]
Automobile Tire Print
Collection
Collection, detail
Collection, detail
Hymnal
Construction with Toy Piano
Curfew
Monogram
Sketch for Monogram
Studio Painting
Magician
Reservoir
Wall Street
First Landing Jump
Tadpole
Harbor
Estate
Choke
Prowler
Skyway
Trust Zone (Stoned Moon Series)
Overcast I
Trellis
Die Hard
Rauschenberg and Lucinda Childs discussing the capabilities of the theatre electronic environment modulator for "9 Evenings" with (from left to right) herb Schneider, L.J. Robinson, Per Biorn, and Billy Kluver
Poster for "9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering" presented at the 69th Regimental Armory, New York
Cover page, Stoned Moon Book
Drawing for Stoned Moon Book
Stoned Moon Book, page 1
Stoned Moon Book, page 7
Stoned Moon Book, page 9
Stoned Moon Book, page 10
Stoned Moon Book, page 11
Drawing for Stoned Moon Book
Booster
Rauschenberg working with source material and proofs for the "Stoned Moon" series at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Rauschenberg checking transfer sheet for "Trust Zone (Stoned Moon Series)" at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Rauschenberg drawing on the lithograph "Sky Garden (Stoned Moon Series)" at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Waves (Stoned Moon Series)
Ape (Stoned Moon Series)
Banner (Stoned Moon Series)
Arena II State II (Stoned Moon Series)
Brake (Stoned Moon Series)
Sky Garden (Stoned Moon Series)
Sky Garden (Stoned Moon Series), detail
Opening of "Currents" exhibition at Dayton 12
Hot Shot
Shuttle Buttle/ ROCI USA (Wax Fire Works)
Minutiae
Elgin Tie
Express
Trisha Brown and Steve Paxton Rehearsing Brown's "Lightfall"
Pelican
Pelican
Spring Training
Roof Piece
Glacial Decoy
Glacial Decoy
Glacial Decoy
Glacial Decoy Series: Etching II
Set and Reset
Set and Reset
Set and Reset
Untitled (Salvage)
Astral Convertible
Astral Convertible
Diane Madden, Lance Gries, Trisha Brown, and Rauschenberg in front of visual presentation for Astral Convertible
If You Couldn't See Me
Exhibition Paper/ROCI Chile
Copperhead Grande/ROCI Chile
Caryatid Cavalcade II/ROCI Chile
Chile
Chile
Chile
Chile
Caryatid Cavalcade I/ROCI Chile
Copperhead-Bite VI/ROCI Chile
Copperhead-Bite IV/ROCI Chile
Copperhead Chica/ROCI Chile
Copperhead-Bite VII/ROCI Chile
Altar Peace/ROCI Chile

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Contents

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction

Robert Rauschenberg is one of the most prolific and best-known artists of the post-war period. Both the quantity and variety of his works, created over a fifty-year career, are astonishing. For example, the final American exhibition (1991) of the artist’s ambitious Rauschenberg Overseas Culture...

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1. Studio Practices

Critical approaches to Robert Rauschenberg’s art have been widely divergent. There is little agreement in the Rauschenberg literature about an approach to his art that best mirrors the artist’s own thought processes and working...

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Chapter subject tags:Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008Art, American--20th centuryPainting--Technique--United States--20th centuryPhotography--Technique--United States--20th centuryPainting, American--20th century

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2. Urban Experiences

Robert Rauschenberg is an artist whose work is conditioned by his immediate surroundings, and the single greatest influence on his works during the 1950s and early 1960s was the chaotic, culturally diverse, and volatile urban atmosphere of Lower Manhattan, where the artist lived during most of...

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Chapter subject tags:Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008Johns, Jasper, 1930-Urban renewal--United States--20th centuryTenth Street (New York, N.Y.)Artists' studios--United States--20th centuryNewspapers--History--United States--20th centuryCollage, American--20th century

PublisherYale University Press

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3. Space Exploration Works

One of the most prominent questions in Rauschenberg’s works is how to determine meaning. What do the works tell us, and how do they connect with their historical periods? I have shown that Rauschenberg relies on spontaneity and intuition as working methods. Yet within his intuitive approach, areas of focus are apparent. My discussion of his urban-based works of the 1950s and 1960s indicates...

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PublisherYale University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008Gemini G.E.L. (Firm)Prints, American--20th centurySpace exploration in artPainting, American--20th century

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4. Dancing on the Edge

Until recently, Rauschenberg’s involvement in dance has been treated as a peripheral issue in his oeuvre, yet his work in choreography, set design, costume, and lighting is powerfully related to fundamental aspects of his art-making. Recent essays include Steve Paxton, “Rauschenberg for Cunningham and Three of...

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PublisherYale University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008Brown, Trisha, 1936-2017Judson Dance TheaterCunningham, MerceModern dance--United States--20th century

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5. ROCI in Chile

In 1984, Robert Rauschenberg began a seven-year and eleven-country art project, the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI). His goal was to make art inspired by the eleven countries, to exhibit in each country the...

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Chapter subject tags:Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008Prints, American--20th centuryChile--Politics and government--20th century

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Remarks

This study has attempted to provide an in-depth investigation of several Rauschenberg ideas and projects. Its goal has been to understand better the artist’s creative process and from that understanding to provide surer interpretations of his works in relationship to modern history. The chapters have used different approaches, ranging from observations of...

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Selected Bibliography

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