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...moved from Dada's mockery to an acceptance of commonplace ephemera as O.K. material for art. Shout Through Refuse. "A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting than are wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric." The man who said that is Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg, but Schwitters would have thoroughly approved. Whether he would have been altogether at home with current pop art excesses is another question. Pop art seems to cock a mocking eye at the present affluent society by enshrining such shibboleths as soup cans and commercial-art clichés. Schwitters...
...confound critics who are proclaiming that the boom is already a bust, Castelli in the past fortnight has managed to sell the world's largest pop painting, by James Rosenquist, and exhibited the world's noisiest contempo rary sculpture, by Robert Rauschenberg. What do the two have to do with each other? To hear the artists tell it, both are simply expressions of today's urban landscape...
Junk on Wheels. Robert Rauschenberg, 39, has already established himself as a pop hero by exhibiting a stuffed goat, his own bed, and lumps of genuine Fulton Street dirt as art, and picked up the 1964 Venice Biennale's International First Prize for painting with his silk-screen images taken from newsphotos. Last week at Castelli's, Rauschenberg unveiled his latest kick-electronic sculpture. Titled Oracle, it is a series of five disconnected wagons of carefully put together junk, which Rauschenberg thinks of as "a collage out of sound." The connecting links are auditory; four pieces tweet...
...Oracle is hardly a matter of fun and games," insists Rauschenberg. "Through the use of materials-the old tub, car door, the window frame-I have represented a cross section of our culture. It's our own New York landscape." Neither the artist nor the gallery has decided on an asking price. "It's quite an impractical piece," admits Rauschenberg. "No one will buy that thing anyway," said a gallery aide, but then they did not expect anyone to buy an 85-ft.-long painting either...
...Jean-Luc Godard, discuss "the brio and elegance" of Dionne Warwick's singing style as a "pleasurable but complex" event to be "experienced without condescension." In chic circles, anyone damning rock 'n' roll is labeled not only square but uncultured. For inspirational purposes, such hip artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers and Andy Warhol occasionally paint while listening to rock 'n' roll music. Explains Warhol: "It makes me mindless, and I paint better." After gallery openings in Manhattan, the black-tie gatherings often adjourn to a discotheque...