Robert Rauschenberg
Paintings and Sculptures
1948–1953
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Paintings and Sculptures
1948–1953
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Robert Rauschenberg
Paintings and Sculptures
1948–1953
Edited by Eric Banks, Julia Blaut,
and Susan Davidson

Foreword

Courtney J. Martin

Introduction

Julia Blaut

Looking Back: Rauschenberg Before

Black Mountain College

Catherine Craft

Rauschen­berg’s Book of Genesis:

This Is the First Half of a Print Designed

to Exist in Passing Time

Terry Winters

Black Painting: An Act in the Gap

Darby English

“In a rich, false history”: Untitled (Scatole

e Feticci Personali)

Giorgio Di Domenico

Erased de Kooning Drawing: The One

Who Asked and the One Who Agreed

Helen Molesworth

Listening to the Street: Automobile Tire Print

Jennifer L. Roberts

The History of Matter: Dirt Painting (for John Cage)

Leah Dickerman

Chronology

Tim Clifford and Helen Hsu
Acknowledgments
Artworks

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