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...footnote to your April 18 article on combine-maker Robert Rauschenberg in 1948 a youth hosteler in our pension in Paris had purchased a ticket for a performance of the Paris Opera, not realizing that it was a strictly formal affair. She, in a very real sense, had "nothing to wear" for this sort of occasion...
Latest darling of the far-out art set is a can mild-mannered Texan named Robert Rauschenberg. His exhibition at Manhattan's Leo Castelli Gallery last week drew admiring crowds, though some gawkers seemed in secret doubt of what they saw. As on another occasion, famed in fable when an emperor paraded in invisible clothes, the atmosphere was both festive and constrained...
...Rauschenberg calls his works "combines' because they combine painting with props pasted or fastened to the picture ("It begins with a painting and sort of moves out into the room" He gained notoriety by attaching a pillow to a patchwork quilt, splashing paint over them and calling the result The Bed But such beginning efforts had "a souvenir quality, Rauschenberg says, "which I am now trying to kill. Nostalgia tends to eliminate some of the directness. Immediacy is the only thing you can trust " Among the fragments of immediate experience with which Rauschenberg floods his latest work are stuffed...
...read a TIME article about Abstractionist Josef Albers' art teaching at Black Mountain College, and hurried home to sit at Albers' feet: "He taught me that there is something to see in anything if you just look." That seems to be the message of Rauschenberg...
...long supported himself by commercial art, but that day is past; the combines created in Rauschenberg's Manhattan loft bring from $400 to $7,500 apiece. Such public demand for such private images is one of the art boom's most fascinating phenomena. Does it reflect a starvation diet of subjective experience amongst the mass of rich Americans? Or do people buy Rauschenberg to share in his quiet protest against what they think cellophane-wrapped sort of world...