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In the mid-1980s, Robert Rauschenberg''s creative attentions turned toward the visual and plastic properties of junk metal when he began to assemble found metal objects and screenprint his photographic images onto aluminum, bronze, brass and copper. His first body of work in this vein was Gluts, a series begun in 1986 and continued intermittently until 1995, in which ornate metalwork seemingly derived from a bedpost might attach to a slice of mesh wire, or twisted petals of yellow metal might sprout from the remains of an eviscerated toaster. Asked to comment on his novel use of the word gluts, Rauschenberg said, It''s a time of glut. Greed is rampant... I simply want to present people with their ruins... I think of the Gluts as souvenirs without nostalgia. Published to accompany the Peggy Guggenheim Collection''s exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts (the first show to focus on Rauschenberg''s sculpture since 1995), this fully illustrated catalogue features a sele

Robert Rauschenberg Gluts

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      Publisher Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S.
      Published 31 July 2009
      ISBN-13 9780892073887
      978-0892073887
      ISBN-10 892073888
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      Book Synopsis
      In the mid-1980s, Robert Rauschenberg''s creative attentions turned toward the visual and plastic properties of junk metal when he began to assemble found metal objects and screenprint his photographic images onto aluminum, bronze, brass and copper. His first body of work in this vein was Gluts, a series begun in 1986 and continued intermittently until 1995, in which ornate metalwork seemingly derived from a bedpost might attach to a slice of mesh wire, or twisted petals of yellow metal might sprout from the remains of an eviscerated toaster. Asked to comment on his novel use of the word gluts, Rauschenberg said, It''s a time of glut. Greed is rampant... I simply want to present people with their ruins... I think of the Gluts as souvenirs without nostalgia. Published to accompany the Peggy Guggenheim Collection''s exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts (the first show to focus on Rauschenberg''s sculpture since 1995), this fully illustrated catalogue features a sele

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