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Robert Rauschenberg Lotus V, 2008 Pigmented Ink-jet and hand painted photo-gravure on Somerset velvet 45.75 in. x 60 in. x 1.75 in. Print Edition by ULAE Rauschenberg was a great photographer. The first works he sold to the Museum of Modern Art in New York were photographs. The surprising thing is that even though he could capture whatever he wanted in front of a camera, it was never enough. Perhaps...
Northwest photographer Christopher Rauschenberg talks about life with his dad, Robert Rauschenberg, who died in May. The famed artist was 82 and had no other children.
Robert Rauschenberg's Reservoir With the recent death of seminal artist Robert Rauschenberg, the airwaves and the blogwaves have been filled with stories of the artist, from his childhood in North Dakota to his early days at Black Mountain College in...
I’ve been thinking a lot about Rauschenberg lately. But I’ve always thought a lot about Rauschenberg. For my money (I wish!), he was and remains the unsurpassed master of visual language in the modern era; his seemingly effortless improvisational command...
Invention and bold experimentation are the legacy of Robert Rauschenberg's legendary art career. On May 12, 2008, he died of heart failure in his Florida home and studio. Considered a man of many talents, he had his hand in every...
Why I saw nothing about this until today, I'll never know. Robert Rauschenberg, one of the great artists of the late 20th century, died (at age 82) nearly a month ago. The Times provides a clear, insightful overview of his career. This, from the Times obit, is perhaps the best characterization of Rauschenberg (based on what I've read) that I've ever seen: “Screwing things up is a virtue,” he said when...
Our own Morgan Meis in The Smart Set: The simplest way to explain what Rauschenberg did is to say that he made the canvas three-dimensional and worldly. Or to put it another way, he thought of the canvas as something...
Lee Siegel on Cy Twombly in 2005: You cannot fully understand Twombly's art unless you know that he is gay. It's often fatuous to reduce an artist to his or her sexuality, but Twombly is working in a tradition that...
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As I read through the news coverage of Robert Rauschenberg's death last week, I noticed a disturbing sameness: Most writers and critics refused to say that Rauschenberg was gay, and all but two critics were unwilling to say why that is important. This is a problem for two reasons: Rauschenberg's frequently referenced his homosexuality in groundbreaking ways in his own work (much of which was autobiographical...
Somehow, last week, I missed that Robert Rauschenberg had passed away . This, of course, got us to wondering if the Texas House ( the same one that, in 1934, declared the writings of Lord Byron to be unfit for students at the University of Texas ) has ever honored Rauschenberg with a proclamation as they do national championship football teams, war heroes, school teachers, and other worthy Texans....
In case you missed it, David Byrne wrote a sweet piece for the NYTs honoring the passing of our favorite master of montage, Robert Rauschenberg . Here's bit: Bob's way of talking was a challenge to many - he spoke in constant puns and metaphors, like a stream-of-consciousness poet, and one had to suspend traditional forms of speech, understanding and discourse and go with the flow. It was liberating,...
Byrne's penetrating appreciation of his recently deceased friend appeared on yesterday's New York Times Op-Ed page, and follows. Bob the Builder I approached Bob Rauschenberg in the mid-’80s to design a cover for the Talking Heads record “Speaking in Tongues.”...
Peace, Social Justice and Truth for (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He pushed, prodded and sometimes reconceived all the mediums in which he worked. Robert Rauschenberg , who died Monday at age 82, is part of the cultural mythos of postwar New York. He regularly...
