That's a riot. Rauschenberg is the fella who did a lot of work with Merce Cunningham and John Cage isn't he? I don't know very much about more recent modern art, still stuck in the 1900-1940 era but I'm really enjoying learning about the reasons why they made some of the things they did much more than I would have ever enjoyed just seeing their art in a museum or something. Their lives and motivations are fascinating to me.
Yes he is. I first read about him and the goat thing in a book about the life of Jackson Pollock I think. Pollock studied with Thomas Hart Benton...I just find that wild! Either that or one of the Andy Warhol books. I was obsessed with Warhol and Pop Art when I was in high school. I think I've read just about everything put out by any and all of the factory hangers-on. Yeah, the back stories on the artists themselves and their motivations is wildly more interesting than just the art by itself.
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Date: 2004-07-20 04:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-20 05:03 am (UTC)Either that or one of the Andy Warhol books. I was obsessed with Warhol and Pop Art when I was in high school. I think I've read just about everything put out by any and all of the factory hangers-on.
Yeah, the back stories on the artists themselves and their motivations is wildly more interesting than just the art by itself.