ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG. CARDBOARDS AND RELATED PIECES

Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925) began to investigate the boundaries between painting and sculpture in the 1950s, working with a variet y of found objects in his Combine paintings and freestanding Combines. Later, in his Cardboard series (1971--72), he confined himsel f to the use of cardboard boxes, eliminating virtually all imagery, reducing the palette to a near monochrome, and commenting in sub tle ways on the materialism and disposability of modern life. This book is the first to focus exclusively on Rauschenbergs rarely s een Cardb...[Read more]