Robert Rauschenberg
This book was published on the occasion of Robert Rauschenberg at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, a major exhibition of painting and sculpture by the artist. Presented in collaboration with the Estate of Robert Rauschenberg, it highlighted the originality, range, and influence of the artist’s vision, illuminating the course he charted out of Abstract Expressionism and toward the integration of art and life. Using discarded materials, everyday objects, and appropriated images, Rauschenberg erased the distinctions between medium and genre, abstraction and representation, while his “flatbed picture plane” transformed the relationship between artist, image, and viewer.
The catalogue reproduces in full color—with several gatefolds—over forty exhibited works, which cover the span of Rauschenberg’s career from 1950 to 2007. Among them are key works from the artist’s own collection, many of which had not been shown for more than thirty years. Also featured are details and installation photography from various venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and archival photographs of the artist traveling, at home, and at work in his studio and elsewhere. Providing further context are essays by art historians James Lawrence and John Richardson that survey Rauschenberg’s life, practice, and oeuvre; a detailed chronology by Susan Davidson and Joan Young, both then curators at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; as well as a foreword by Larry Gagosian.
Publisher: Gagosian
Publication date: 2010
Contributors: Susan Davidson, Larry Gagosian, James Lawrence, John Richardson, Joan Young
Designer: Mucca Design, New York
Printer: Shapco Printing, Minneapolis
Distributor: Prestel Publishing
Format: Cloth hardcover in slipcase
Dimensions: 10 7/8 × 13 1/4 inches (27.6 × 33.6 cm)
Pages: 320
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-7913-4557-4
