Description
Book SynopsisRobert 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 lifefamily, friends, former lovers, professional associates, studio assistants, and collaborators.
Trade ReviewFall in love with Robert Rauschenberg, galactic master of art and life, through his worldwide collaborations. -- Dorothy Lichtenstein, president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
The informative and entertaining voices of this solid work are as idiosyncratic as the artist himself. This is an excellent history for fans of Rauschenberg and mid-20th-century art. * Publishers Weekly *
This makes oral history a peculiarly apposite way of approaching him. The voices in Sara Sinclair’s new book appear as randomly put together as do the car tyre and stuffed goat of Rauschenberg’s combine 'Monogram'. . . . And it is this fabrication that makes Sinclair’s book so fine. Rauschenberg emerges from it less as a painting than as a combine; which is to say, a Rauschenberg. -- Charles Darwent * Times Literary Supplement *
Table of ContentsPreface
Reader’s Guide
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Small World
2. Collaborations
3. 381 Lafayette Street
4. Captiva
5. Travelogue
6. Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI)
7. Curating and Installations
8. An Expanding American Art Market
9. No One Wanted It to End
Network Diagrams
Narrators
Notes
Index
