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Robert Rauschenberg - An Oral History (Hardcover)
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Robert Rauschenberg - An Oral History (Hardcover)
Series: The Columbia Oral History Series
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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.
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