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  • Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism: Art, 'Sensibility' and War

    Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism by Parkinson, Gavin;

    Art, 'Sensibility' and War

    Series: Transnational Surrealism;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 11 December 2025
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781501388705
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages320 pages
    • Size 228.6x152.4 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 15 colour & 56 bw illus
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    The art of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is usually viewed as quite distinct from Surrealism, a movement which the artist himself displayed some hostility towards. However, Rauschenberg had a very positive reception among Surrealists, particularly across the period 1959-69.

    In the face of Rauschenberg's avowals of his own 'literalism' and insistence on his art as 'facts,' this book gathers generous evidence of the poetic, metaphorical, allusive, associative and connotative dimensions of the artist's oeuvre as identified by Surrealists, and thus extrapolates new readings from Rauschenberg's key works on that basis. By viewing Rauschenberg's art against the expansion of the cultural influence of the United States in Europe in the period after the Second World War and the increasingly politicized activities of the Surrealists in the era of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism shows how poetic inference of the artist's work was turned towards political interpretation. By analysing Rauschenberg's art in the context of Surrealism, and drawing from it new interpretations and perspectives, this volume simultaneously situates the Surrealist movement in 1960s American art criticism and history.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    1. Poet: Allegory and Metaphor in US Art History and Criticism
    2. In the Surrealist Domain: Bed and Target with Plaster Casts
    3. Opposer: The Poetics and Politics of Canyon in Paris and New York, 1961
    4. Surrealist of the Re-Found Object: Monogram in Front Unique
    5. Resistance Artist: Bed at Anti-Proci??1?2s
    6. The Constantin Guys of the Atomic Era: Alain Jouffroy, Talisman and Barge
    7. Choisiste: 'Things' in French and US Art Criticism in the 1960s
    8. Surrealist in Irony: Josi??1?2 Pierre and Trophy III (for Jean Tinguely)
    Concluding Remarks: On Robert Rauschenberg, Surrealism and Art History

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