Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism

Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism

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Gavin Parkinson, Parkinson
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)
EAN: 9781501358289
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The art of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is usually viewed as quite distinct from Surrealism, a movement which the artist himself displayed some hostility towards. However, Rauschenberg had a very positive reception among Surrealists, particularly across the period 1959-69.In the face of Rauschenberg's avowals of his own 'literalism' and insistence on his art as 'facts,' this book gathers generous evidence of the poetic, metaphorical, allusive, associative and connotative dimensions of the artist's oeuvre as identified by Surrealists, and thus extrapolates new readings from Rauschenberg's key works on that basis. By viewing Rauschenberg's art against the expansion of the cultural influence of the United States in Europe in the period after the Second World War and the increasingly politicized activities of the Surrealists in the era of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism shows how poetic inference of the artist's work was turned towards political interpretation. By analysing Rauschenberg's art in the context of Surrealism, and drawing from it new interpretations and perspectives, this volume simultaneously situates the Surrealist movement in 1960s American art criticism and history.
EAN 9781501358289
ISBN 1501358286
Binding Ebook
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)
Publication date March 23, 2023
Pages 320
Language English
Country United States
Authors Gavin Parkinson, Parkinson
Series Transnational Surrealism