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Mattison, Robert S.

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Acknowledgments

Robert S. Mattison

Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries

Acknowledgments

Author

Robert S. Mattison

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00106.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15543

Acknowledgments

In the spirit of Robert Rauschenberg’s art, this book is collaborative. I wish to thank a number of people for their time and expertise. First, my deep gratitude goes to Robert Rauschenberg for allowing me to conduct hours of interviews and for providing the opportunity to spend time in his studio. I owe an enormous debt to David White, Rauschenberg’s curator, who provided valuable insights about the art and checked factual accuracy. I would also like to thank Ann C. Barnhart-Park, Trisha Brown, James Dean, Sidney B. Felsen and Joni Moisant Weyl, Bill Goldston and Larissa Goldston, Lisa Hahn, Barry Kew, Billy Klüver and Julie Martin, Gillian Malpass, Elizabeth McWilliams, Michiko Okaya, Nena Ossa, Jennifer Ozdoba, Darryl Pottorf, Katharine Ridler, Nancy Rothberg, Arthur J. and Barbara Rothkopf, Donald Saff, Robert Schulman, Mario Stein, Natalia Swiderska, Kenneth Tyler and Marabeth Cohen-Tyler, and my wife Elizabeth for her support.

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BOOKRobert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries

Robert S. Mattison

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00106

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15541

Robert Rauschenberg, one of the most prolific and influential artists of the postwar period, has created an astonishing variety of works during a career spanning more than fifty years. To illuminate the meaning of Rauschenberg’s art and the reasons behind his artistic choices, Robert Mattison in this book focuses closely on a small selection of the artist’s projects. Mattison offers an interpretation of Rauschenberg’s output that is both original and uniquely insightful, based on extensive research and first-hand observation of the artist at work in his studio.

Like Rauschenberg’s own work, the book ranges across a variety of disciplines. Mattison relates the artist’s output to the visual arts, politics, technology, dance, urban theory, and other intriguing contemporary issues. The book examines Rauschenberg’s working process, the effect of his dyslexia on his art, his seminal Combine paintings of the 1950s, fascination with the “space race,” and collaboration with well-known choreographer Trisha Brown. A final chapter explores the art Rauschenberg exhibited in Chile during the dangerous and repressive rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet.

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Robert S. Mattison

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date July 2003 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300099317

EISBN 9780300233575

Illustrations 104 illus.

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