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Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of our Time
Off the Wall Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of our Time
Author: Calvin Tomkins
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385124706
ISBN-10: 0385124708
Pages: 324
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Doubleday
Book Type: Hardcover
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"Focusing on the career of Robert Rauschenberg, Tompkins chronicles the astonishingly creative period of the 1950's and 1960's when New York artists moved art off the walls of museums and galleres and into the center of the social scene. This revolution was led by painters Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and carried on by Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. Off the Wall is a witty, stylish, and exuberant portrait of the art-makers of their time." (from the back cover)


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