{"id":539,"date":"2017-06-02T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T16:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/?p=539"},"modified":"2017-06-11T18:12:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T18:12:23","slug":"rauschenberg-review-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Rauschenberg: Review of Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/h2>\n

(First in a Series)<\/em><\/h4>\n

The Rauschenberg Problem, Part 1<\/h2>\n

Thing about Robert Rauschenberg is, it\u2019s not at all clear what he really ever did<\/em>, other than hang out with art<\/em>–pals<\/em> . . . and experiment with various mixed media<\/em> . . . and mountainous junkyards<\/em> of techno-gadgetry that get set up and oohed<\/em> over in \u201cinstallations.\u201d I guess they call them installations<\/em> because you need six Bekins men and assorted appliance guys\u00a0just to install<\/em> them. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"For my money, there\u2019s nothing more spoiled and indulgent than a big art installation, something nobody can really buy and show off in the parlor. They are doomed to a life of roadshows, even when they have a nominal home such as the Beaubourg in Paris, which is where Rauschenberg’s Oracle<\/em>\u00a0often lives. (See pic, and the piece on the Tate Modern, below.) <\/span><\/p>\n

Who does<\/em> installations, anyway? Mainly they’re show-off academic artists who live on things like grants <\/em>and hang out with art-pals <\/em>and strive for ever-more edgy and insipid piles of junk. Rauschenberg doesn’t quite fit that mold, being really old and all, but he sort of invented it.<\/span><\/p>\n

(At the Tate Modern last year\u2026)<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) has been called a forerunner of essentially every postwar movement since Abstract Expressionism. He moved seamlessly between the mediums of painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation and performance, and often wove these methods together, blurring the lines between conventional artistic categories and developing a practice that defies simplifications and categorizations.<\/span><\/p>\n

His open and inclusive approach to art led him to engage in meaningful dialogues with his direct peers, such as\u00a0Jasper Johns<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Cy Twombly<\/span><\/a>, while also collaborating with choreographers, musicians, and even scientists and engineers. Rauschenberg\u2019s global perspective and international footprint\u2014something quite common for artists working today\u2014was revolutionary at the\u00a0time and demonstrative of his strong belief in the power of art to transcend cultural borders.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Robert Rauschenberg” will present a holistic and multifaceted overview of the artist\u2019s prolific career. The retrospective will include key examples from his iconic \u201cCombines\u201d series as well as showcase his innovative experiments with media appropriation, technology and performance. The exhibition will also reveal the global impact of Rauschenberg’s career, focusing on his close partnerships with artists across Europe, Asia, and Latin America.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tate Modern\u2019s presentation will begin with an examination of Rauschenberg\u2019s early works, which were largely influenced by his formative years at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, a hub of artistic innovation and experimental practice in the 1940\u2019s and early 50\u2019s. During this period, both found materials and images became integral to Rauschenberg\u2019s visual vocabulary as he began to incorporate newspapers and magazines into his drawings and prints, and perfected techniques of solvent transfer and assemblage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beginning in the 1960\u2019s Rauschenberg produced several ambitious artworks incorporating technology, such as the sculptural environment\u00a0Oracle, 1962-65. Comprised of five elements that Rauschenberg called \u201cgifts from the street,\u201d the sculpture has no fixed composition and emits a range of sounds from radios hidden inside the units.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

http:\/\/hamptonsarthub.com\/2016\/10\/14\/news-traveling-rauschenberg-retrospective-first-since-his-death\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(First in a Series) The Rauschenberg Problem, Part 1 Thing about Robert Rauschenberg is, it\u2019s not at all clear what he really ever did, other than hang out with art–pals . . . and experiment with various mixed media . . . and mountainous junkyards of techno-gadgetry that get set up and oohed over in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[96,98,95,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-art","7":"tag-junkyards","8":"tag-moma","9":"tag-robert-rauschenberg","10":"tag-tate-modern"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nRauschenberg: Review of Reviews - gallerynews.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rauschenberg: Review of Reviews - gallerynews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(First in a Series) The Rauschenberg Problem, Part 1 Thing about Robert Rauschenberg is, it\u2019s not at all clear what he really ever did, other than hang out with art–pals . . . and experiment with various mixed media . . . and mountainous junkyards of techno-gadgetry that get set up and oohed over in […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"gallerynews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-02T16:04:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-06-11T18:12:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/the-art-scene-by-cooper-ward.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cooper Ward\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Cooper Ward\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/\",\"name\":\"Rauschenberg: Review of Reviews - gallerynews.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-06-02T16:04:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-06-11T18:12:23+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/#\/schema\/person\/c9c7106b6fc2710d97059daa3348d271\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Rauschenberg: Review of Reviews\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/\",\"name\":\"gallerynews.com\",\"description\":\"Family-friendly Art Magazine. America's Favorite. Since 1993.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/#\/schema\/person\/c9c7106b6fc2710d97059daa3348d271\",\"name\":\"Cooper Ward\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ea345a87ebf40a70efca530f5cdc2394?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ea345a87ebf40a70efca530f5cdc2394?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Cooper Ward\"},\"description\":\"Cooper Ward hails from Lake Plains, IL, which he describes as \\\"the flattest place east of Nebraska.\\\" He enjoys watching cooking shows and listening to semi-classical music.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/cooperward.site\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/author\/cooper-ward\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Rauschenberg: Review of Reviews - gallerynews.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Rauschenberg: Review of Reviews - gallerynews.com","og_description":"(First in a Series) The Rauschenberg Problem, Part 1 Thing about Robert Rauschenberg is, it\u2019s not at all clear what he really ever did, other than hang out with art–pals . . . and experiment with various mixed media . . . and mountainous junkyards of techno-gadgetry that get set up and oohed over in […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/","og_site_name":"gallerynews.com","article_published_time":"2017-06-02T16:04:13+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-06-11T18:12:23+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/the-art-scene-by-cooper-ward.jpg"}],"author":"Cooper Ward","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Cooper Ward","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/","url":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/","name":"Rauschenberg: Review of Reviews - gallerynews.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-06-02T16:04:13+00:00","dateModified":"2017-06-11T18:12:23+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/#\/schema\/person\/c9c7106b6fc2710d97059daa3348d271"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/rauschenberg-review-reviews\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Rauschenberg: Review of Reviews"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/","name":"gallerynews.com","description":"Family-friendly Art Magazine. America's Favorite. Since 1993.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/#\/schema\/person\/c9c7106b6fc2710d97059daa3348d271","name":"Cooper Ward","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ea345a87ebf40a70efca530f5cdc2394?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ea345a87ebf40a70efca530f5cdc2394?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Cooper Ward"},"description":"Cooper Ward hails from Lake Plains, IL, which he describes as \"the flattest place east of Nebraska.\" He enjoys watching cooking shows and listening to semi-classical music.","sameAs":["http:\/\/cooperward.site"],"url":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/author\/cooper-ward\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3TQP6-8H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}