Rauschenberg Author:Andrew Forge Within the last decade Robert Rauschenberg's painterly style and lavish creative imagination have brought him to the front rank of internationally known American painters. Rauschenberg revolutionized American and world art in the fifties with his "combines" of objects e.g., wheels, clocks, screens, tires, — and Coke bottles—and paintings. This so... more »-called "Junk art" prepared the ground for "Happenings," performance art, and Pop Art; all these significant developments are indebted to his imaginative innovations and radical exercise of artistic freedom at a time when American art was in the doldrums. Written by Andrew Forge, one of Britain's most active young critics, this exceptional book presents an in-depth study
of the artist his works, changing methods, and aesthetic—and also places him within the context of the
modern tradition, including his association and collaboration with other artists such as Josef Albers, Jasper Johns, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham. The text, which contains many pertinent quotes from Rauschenberg, clarifies the artist's rich imagery and his manipulation of seemingly diverse elements within a single work, and in so doing serves to explain the powerful attraction of his art.« less