Off the Wall A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg

Name: Off the Wall A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg
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ISBN: 9780312425852

ISBN-10: 0312425856

ISBN-13: 9780312425852

Edition: Revised

Authors: Calvin Tomkins

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Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazing at Rauschenberg's painting "Double Feature, Tomkins felt compelled to make some kind of literal connection to the work, and it is in that sprit that "for the last forty years it's been [his] ambition to write about contemporary art not as a critic or a judge, but as a participant." Tomkins has spent many of those years writing about Robert Rauschenberg, whom he rapidly came to see as "one of the most inventive and influential artists of his generation." So it seemed natural to make Rauschenberg the focus of "Off the Wall, which deals with the…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 11/29/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface to the New Edition



Venice, 1964



Port Arthur



Mostly Messes



Black Mountain



Tragedy, Ecstasy, Doom, and So On



White Numbers



A Place Where Art Goes On



John Cage



Feticci Personali



Enfant Terrible



Dancers



Jasper Johns



Why Not Sneeze?



Moving Out



Towards Theater



Into the Sixties



Hot and Cold Heroes



The Construction of Boston



Recognition



The Sistine on Broadway



Incidents of Travel in Europe and Asia



Nine Evenings



The Not So Great Society



"There is no solution because there is no problem"




End of an Era



Captiva



Everything in Sight (Rauschenberg Revisited, 2004-2005)


Appendix


Notes


Index