Robert Rauschenberg: Paintings and Sculptures, 1948-1953 Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co..
Edited by Eric Banks, Julia Blaut, Susan Davidson. Text by Catherine Craft, Giorgio Di Domenico, Leah Dickerman, Darby English, Helen Molesworth, Jennifer L. Roberts, Terry Winters. The first five years of Rauschenberg’s ceaselessly experimental artistic career as officially compiled by the artist’s foundation, presented in an elegant clothbound slipcase After spending three semesters at the Kansas City Art Institute and the summer of 1948 abroad, Robert Rauschenberg, at age 22, returned to the United States determined not to be “the kind of painter I was going to be if I just kept making street paintings in Paris.” Over the next five years, moving back and forth between New York City and Black Mountain College in North Carolina, he discovered that he did not want to be the kind of painter who simply emulated the Abstract Expressionists, either, however much he may have admired them. Instead, he would “try to find some other way to do things.”
The 122 works in this first volume of the first catalogue raisonné devoted to Rauschenberg represent the artist’s earliest attempts to define his own radical approach to making paintings and sculptures, laying the groundwork for decades of unfettered creativity, experimentation and collaboration. Full of rarities and seminal research, it is a revelatory reintroduction to one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. This light gray Peyer clothbound hardcover with a tip-on front cover image, housed in a matching clothbound clamshell with foil-stamped text, is available in a limited edition of 500 copies.
Over the span of six decades, Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) worked in an astonishing range of mediums including painting, sculpture, prints, photography and performance. Both by himself and in collaboration with artists, dancers, musicians and writers, Rauschenberg produced a vast body of work that set the course for the art of the present day.
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