Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History
Rauschenberg, Robert; Sinclair, Sara, with Clark, Mary Marshall, and Bearman, Peter S. (Edited by).
Language: English
Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 2019
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xxv, 297 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. The Columbia Oral History Series. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in works called combines, and collaborated with engineers and scientists to challenge our thinking about art. Through collaborations with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and others, Rauschenberg bridged the music, dance, and visual-art worlds, inventing a new art for the last half of the twentieth century. Robert Rauschenberg is a work of collaborative oral biography that tells the story of one of the twentieth century's great artists through a series of interviews with key figures in his life--family, friends, former lovers, professional associates, studio assistants, and collaborators. The oral historian Sara Sinclair artfully puts the narrators' reminiscences in conversation, with a focus on the relationship between Rauschenberg's intense social life and his art. The book opens with a prologue by Rauschenberg's sister and then shifts to New York City's 1950s and '60s art scene, populated by the luminaries of abstract expressionism. It follows Rauschenberg's eventual move to Florida's Captiva Island and his trips across the globe, illuminating his inner life and its effect on his and others' art. The narrators share their views on Rauschenberg's work, explore the curatorial thinking behind exhibitions of his art, and reflect on the impact of the influx of money into the contemporary art market. Included are artists famous in the own right, such as Laurie Anderson and Brice Marden, as well as art-world insiders and lesser-known figures who were part of Rauschenberg's inner circle." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Small world; Collaborations; 381 lafayette street; Captiva; Travelogue; Rauschenberg overseas culture interchange [ROCI]; Curating and installations; An expanding American art market; No one wanted it to end. Size: 8vo.…
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- Title
- Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History
- Author
- Rauschenberg, Robert; Sinclair, Sara, with Clark, Mary Marshall, and Bearman, Peter S. (Edited by).
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press, New York
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Book Type
- Collectible
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0231192762
- ISBN 13
- 9780231192767
- Edition
- 1st.
- Seller catalogs
- Media::Assemblage, Media::Prints, Movements::Pop Art & Happenings, New Books, Performance Art, USA::6. Late Modern, 1945-1999, XL: Extra Large, XXX::COLLECTIBLES
Robert Rauschenberg is a work of collaborative oral biography that tells the story of one of the twentieth century’s great artists through a series of interviews with key figures in his life―family, friends, former lovers, professional associates, studio assistants, and collaborators. The oral historian Sara Sinclair artfully puts the narrators’ reminiscences in conversation, with a focus on the relationship between Rauschenberg’s intense social life and his art. The book opens with a prologue by Rauschenberg’s sister and then shifts to New York City’s 1950s and ’60s art scene, populated by the luminaries of abstract expressionism. It follows Rauschenberg’s eventual move to Florida’s Captiva Island and his trips across the globe, illuminating his inner life and its effect on his and others’ art.
The narrators share their views on Rauschenberg’s work, explore the curatorial thinking behind exhibitions of his art, and reflect on the impact of the influx of money into the contemporary art market. Included are artists famous in their own right, such as Laurie Anderson and Brice Marden, as well as art-world insiders and lesser-known figures who were part of Rauschenberg’s inner circle. Beyond considering Rauschenberg as an artist, this book reveals him as a man embedded in a series of art worlds over the course of a long and rich life, demonstrating the complex interaction of business and personal, public and private in the creation of great art.
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About the Author
Peter Bearman is the Jonathan R. Cole Professor of the Social Sciences, director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theories and Empirics, and president of the American Assembly at Columbia University. His books include Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart (Columbia, 2018).
Mary Marshall Clark is director of the Columbia Center for Oral History Research and founding codirector, with Peter Bearman, of the Oral History Master of Arts Program at Columbia University. She is coeditor of After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed (2011) and coeditor of the Columbia Oral History Series.
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