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Thursday, May 15, 2008

20090514 NYT: Robert Rauschenberg American Artist Dies at 82


Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82

May 14, 2008 By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died on Monday night at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82.

The cause was heart failure, said Arne Glimcher, chairman of PaceWildenstein, the Manhattan gallery that represents Mr. Rauschenberg.

Mr. Rauschenberg’s work gave new meaning to sculpture. “Canyon,” for instance, consisted of a stuffed bald eagle attached to a canvas. “Monogram” was a stuffed goat girdled by a tire atop a painted panel. “Bed” entailed a quilt, sheet and pillow, slathered with paint, as if soaked in blood, framed on the wall. All became icons of postwar modernism.

A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He pushed, prodded and sometimes reconceived all the mediums in which he worked.

Building on the legacies of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell and others, he helped obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art — not to mention between art and life.

Mr. Rauschenberg was also instrumental in pushing American art onward from Abstract Expressionism, the dominant movement when he emerged, during the early 1950s. He became a transformative link between artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and those who came next, artists identified with Pop, Conceptualism, Happenings, Process Art and other new kinds of art in which he played a signal role.

No American artist, Jasper Johns once said, invented more than Mr. Rauschenberg. Mr. Johns, John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Mr. Rauschenberg, without sharing exactly the same point of view, collectively defined this new era of experimentation in American culture.

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Highlights From the Archive

Art Review | 'Robert Rauschenberg: Transfer Drawings From the 1960s'

A Rarely Seen Side of a Rauschenberg Shift

By ROBERTA SMITH

The transfer drawings that Robert Rauschenberg made in the 1960s are seldom seen, especially in large numbers, which makes this exhibition an event of great interest.

March 8, 2007ArtsNews

Leisure/Weekend Desk

Art Out of Anything: Rauschenberg in Retrospect

By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

It is largely, if not exclusively, thanks to Robert Rauschenberg that Americans since the 1950's have come to think that art can suggest that the stuff of life and the stuff of art are ultimately one and the same.

December 23, 2005ArtsReview

Arts and Leisure Desk

The Robert Rauschenberg Reunion Tour

By CAROL VOGEL

At 80, Robert Rauschenberg moves with great difficulty, relying on a walker and two assistants, although he still has his bluff good looks and easy smile.

December 18, 2005ArtsNews

Leisure/Weekend Desk

The Met Purchases a Rauschenberg Painting

By CAROL VOGEL

The Metropolitan Museum has acquired its first painting by Robert Rauschenberg: ''Winter Pool'' (1959), one of the artist's classic combines.

November 18, 2005ArtsNews

Leisure/Weekend Desk

The Modern Buys 'Rebus'

By CAROL VOGEL

After more than a month of much publicized negotiations, the Museum of Modern Art has finally acquired ''Rebus,'' one of Robert Rauschenberg's seminal paintings.

June 17, 2005ArtsNews

Connecticut Weekly Desk

Master of Mixed, And Stirred, Media

By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO

Although Robert Rauschenberg made his most memorable art in the 1950's and 1960's, he has continued to forge insistent if occasionally off-beat prints.

February 13, 2005New York and RegionReview

Connecticut Weekly Desk

Rauschenberg: Autumn Of an Art Patriarch

By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO

At 78, his right side partly paralyzed after a series of strokes, Robert Rauschenberg, one of the most influential artists of the postwar era, isn't ready to clean his brushes yet.

June 27, 2004New York and RegionNews

Leisure/Weekend Desk

Under Rauschenberg's Spell, Mundane Turns Uncanny

By KEN JOHNSON

''Robert Rauschenberg: Current Scenarios,'' an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, touches on just three distinct moments in the long career of one of the most influential artists of the last 50 years.

March 19, 2004ArtsReview

Aloft and Close to Nature, Fine-Feathered Birds in Constant Flux

By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

The details inevitably snag the eye, as they did on Sunday when the Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed the third of eight Events, as they are called, at Dia:Beacon.

May 20, 2008

Rauschenberg Got a Lot From the City and Left a Lot Behind

By ROBERTA SMITH

Here’s what’s on view right now and what will be brought out of storage or rearranged to honor Robert Rauschenberg in the coming weeks.

May 16, 2008

Bob the Builder

By DAVID BYRNE

Robert Rauschenberg’s openness and generosity of vision was contagious and inspired others in their work to see the whole world as a work of art.

May 16, 2008

Paid Notice: Deaths RAUSCHENBERG, ROBERT

RAUSCHENBERG--Robert. The members of The Lotos Club mourn the loss of their distinguished colleague and longtime friend, Robert Rauschenberg, and send condolences to his family.

May 15, 2008

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82

By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

Mr. Rauschenberg, who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style.

May 14, 2008

Paid Notice: Deaths RAUSCHENBERG, ROBERT

RAUSCHENBERG--Robert. The American Academy of Arts and Letters notes with sorrow the death of this esteemed artist. His loss will be deeply felt. RAUSCHENBERG --Robert. The Trustees and the Staff of the Whitney Museum of American Art note with deep sadness the passing of Robert Rauschenberg. A beloved friend of the Museum, he was a maverick who worked without boundaries, continually rethinking traditional techniques and categories of media. He embraced everyday objects as suitable materials and...

May 14, 2008

Rauschenberg and Dance, Partners for Life

By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

Something inherently theatrical about him prompted Robert Rauschenberg to his boldest, freshest conceptions on stage.

May 14, 2008

A Life Made Out of Wood, Metal and Determination

By ANDREA K. SCOTT

“Constructing a Legend,” an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, is the first New York museum show of Louise Nevelson’s work in 27 years.

May 9, 2007

To Be Is to Undo

By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO

A Jersey City show samples a Rutgers faculty member’s 50 years in destructivism.

March 4, 2007

Even in the Digital Age, a Strong Case for Printmaking

By MARTHA SCHWENDENER

“Artistic Collaborations: 50 Years of Universal Limited Art Editions” marks the half-century milestone for the workshop and its association with the Museum of Modern Art.

February 12, 2007

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