| Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History Contributor(s): Sinclair, Sara (Editor), Bearman, Peter (Editor), Clark, Mary Marshall (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231192762 ISBN-13: 9780231192767 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2018060641 |
| Series: Columbia Oral History |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (1.45 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sinclair, Sara: - Sara Sinclair is the project coordinator for the Robert Rauschenberg Oral History Project at INCITE / Columbia Center for Oral History Research, Columbia University.Bearman, Peter: - Peter Bearman (Ph.D. Harvard University) is the Jonathan R. Cole Professor of the Social Sciences, Director of INCITE, Director of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, and the Director of the Mellon Training Program in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Columbia University, the Centennial Professor of Methodology and Sociology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Doormen (Chicago, 2005) and the co-editor of The Middle Range Series for Columbia University Press.Clark, Mary Marshall: - Mary Marshall Clark is the Director of the Columbia Center for Oral History Research and the codirector of the Columbia Oral History Master of Arts Program. She has directed numerous oral history projects and is the coeditor of After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 11, 2001 and the Years that Followed (New Press, 2011). |