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...school he met his future wife, an American student named Susan Weil. They went back together to the U.S. in the fall of 1948. Rauschenberg had read a TIME article about the pioneer abstractionist Josef Albers, the veteran of the Bauhaus who was teaching at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Albers was held in awe as a theorist and a disciplinarian: an inspired Junker. Discipline was what Rauschenberg felt he needed...
There was seldom enough money to buy proper materials, so Rauschenberg used improper ones. Blueprint paper in wide sheets cost $1.75 a roll; he and Susan Weil (they were married in 1950, and their son Christopher was born the following year) spread the stuff out on the floor of their apartment, strewed it with pattern-objects like fishnets and doilies, and one lay down naked on it while the other went over the paper with a portable sun lamp, making giant prints. Only one of the works survives: the blue roentgen ghost of a nude, eerily transparent. Later, Rauschenberg...
...Marion Weil, Dunster House secretary, said that four "standard sophomore suites," each with one bedroom and one living room, are available in Dunster House. Most upperclassmen probably have nicer accomodations and would not want the rooms, she said...
...understand that the Quad wants the chance to give students time to get involved in activities and House life, but on the other hand it seems preposterous to keep rooms empty if they can be filled," Weil said...
...Weil died in 1943, too soon for her to have any influence on the course of history, but O'Brien said he is sure she would have played an influential role in the events of the postwar world...