ABOUT ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

The work of Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) has had a profound impact on avant-garde art from the 1950s onwards. A pioneer of multimedia art, this book explores his experimentations from his Combines (works melding painting and sculpture), prints, silkscreen paintings to his use of technology and his collaborations with choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown.

ABOUT PHAIDON FOCUS

These well-illustrated, short introductory books cover the full span of an artist’s work, exploring its origins, development, style, themes, meanings and media.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Catherine Craft was a contributing author to the exhibition catalogue Robert Rauschenberg: Haywire – Major Technological Works of the 1960s (1997). She has written numerous articles on newly discovered writings by the artist, published in Art in America and The Burlington Magazine. She is adjunct assistant curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas.