From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work in                  opposition to Clement Greenberg?s rigid formalism, Robert Rauschenberg has played a                  pivotal role in the development and understanding of postmodern art. Challenging                  nearly all the prevailing assumptions about the visual arts of his time, he                  pioneered the postwar revival of collage, photography, silkscreen, technology, and                  performance.This book focuses on Rauschenberg?s work during the critical period of                  the 1950s and 1960s. It opens with a newly prefaced version of Leo Steinberg?s                  "Reflections on the State of Criticism," the first published version of his famous                  1972 essay, "Other Criteria," which remains the single most important text on                  Rauschenberg. Rosalind Krauss?s "Rauschenberg and the Materialized Image" builds on                  Steinberg?s essay, arguing that Rauschenberg?s work represents a decisive shift in                  contemporary art. Douglas Crimp?s "On the Museum?s Ruins" examines Rauschenberg?s                  silkscreens in the context of the modern museum. Helen Molesworth?s "Before Bed"                  uses psychoanalytic and economic structures to examine the artist?s Black Paintings                  of the early 1950s. A second essay by Krauss, "Perpetual Inventory," revisits both                  her and Steinberg?s articles of nearly twenty-five years earlier. Finally, Branden                  Joseph?s "A Duplication Containing Duplications" views Rauschenberg?s silkscreens in                  relation to the artist?s interests in technology, particularly television.

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