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.

Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries

Biographies & Memoirs

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Saltonstall Mattison

Arts & Literature

Yale University Press

Photographs

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

THAMES HUDSON LTD

Robert Rauschenberg: Stoned Moon

Craig Starr Gallery

Front cover image for Robert Rauschenberg : exceptional works, 1971-1999 Robert Rauschenberg : exceptional works, 1971-1999

Mnuchin Gallery

Mnuchin Gallery, New York

At only 64 pages, this catalog is small but the story it tells is huge: it documents the thirty-plus years that Robert Rauschenberg created prints and multiples at Gemini G.E.L., the world-famous print house in Los Angeles. From 1967 through 2001, working with Gemini owners Sidney Felsen and Stanley Grinstein,Rauschenberg pushed the boundaries of printmaking like no other contemporaryartist before or since. All of Rauschenberg s most celebrated Gemini G.E.L. prints, print series and multiples such as Booster, the artist s famous X-ray self-portrait are illustrated in this essential volume. Also included are prints using his photographs of Los Angeles, multiples created in France, India, China, and from his travels with the Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange, as well as works created for political or environmental causes including the first Earth Day in 1970. In addition, photographs of the artist working at Gemini are reproduced.Includes an extensive essay by curator Jay Belloli.

Rauschenberg at Gemini

Armory Center for the Arts

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.

GAGOSIAN GALLERY

EDICIONES POLIGRAFA, S.A.

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