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Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde

Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde

Joseph, Branden W.

Paperback

Series: October Books

Individual Artists

ISBN10: 0262600714
ISBN13: 9780262600712
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Apr 1 2007
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.81
Height: 0.70 Width: 7.08 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
An examination of the artistic development of Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on his relationship with John Cage and his role in the making of the American neo-avant-garde.

Robert Rauschenberg is one of the most important visual artists of the second half of the twentieth century. In Random Order, Branden Joseph examines Rauschenberg's work in the context of the American neo-avant-garde. One of the foundations of his study is Rauschenberg's professional relationship with experimental composer John Cage. From the moment of their encounter at Black Mountain College in 1952, Joseph argues, Rauschenberg and Cage initiated a new avant-garde project, one that approached the idea of difference not in terms of negation but as a positive force. Claiming that Rauschenberg's work cannot be understood solely from the standpoint of the Frankfurt School--whose theories have dominated discussions of avant-garde and neo-avant-garde aesthetics--Joseph turns to the theoretical positions of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. Rauschenberg's neo-avant-garde was not a simple repetition of earlier avant-garde movements, Joseph shows, but a series of practices that opposed the rise of postwar spectacle, commodification, and mass conformity.

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