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Born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1925, he made his way to New York City by age 19. All around him was a world of beckoning refuse--umbrellas, rags, old magazines, even a stuffed eagle--things just waiting to be reunderstood, or maybe just misunderstood in more interesting ways.
Collage and assembly were techniques that had already been used meticulously by Picasso and Kurt Schwitters. Rauschenberg jammed his found objects together with a different kind of abandon. He produced industrial-strength "combines," big pieces in which worlds collided with a bang. Monogram, from 1955 to '59, featured a wooden...
I was going to do it. It was just too tempting. I could imagine how it would feel—so smooth and sleek upon my body. The thought was riveting. And you know what? Dammit, I needed this.I walked over to her, glaring. As she looked up, I said...
When Robert Rauschenberg moved to New York City in 1949, Abstract Expressionism was at the height of its art-world prestige. What that means, of course, is that it was ready for somebody to kick it in the pants. Enter Rauschenberg, with his new shoes on. It wasn't that...
Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Rauschenberg, now 80, arrived in New York by way of Black Mountain College in North Carolina, the training ground of the '50s avant-garde, where he had befriended the composer John Cage. Cage's ideas about chance and randomness fascinated Rauschenberg, who began scavenging the...