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Dr Gavin Parkinson
Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism: Art, 'Sensibility' and War
Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism: Art, 'Sensibility' and War
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- More about Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism: Art, 'Sensibility' and War
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. Setting Rauschenberg's work in a postwar context of US cultural imperialism, and the increasingly politicized activities of the Surrealists in the era of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), Parkinson draws fresh connections between the ethical and political dimensions of surrealism and the anti-war and anti-colonialist struggles of the time.
Offering a new interpretation and perspective on Rauschenberg's European connections, this book is vital reading for students of global modernism and the trajectory of 1960s American art criticism and history.
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. Setting Rauschenberg's work in a postwar context of US cultural imperialism, and the increasingly politicized activities of the Surrealists in the era of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), Parkinson draws fresh connections between the ethical and political dimensions of surrealism and the anti-war and anti-colonialist struggles of the time.
Offering a new interpretation and perspective on Rauschenberg's European connections, this book is vital reading for students of global modernism and the trajectory of 1960s American art criticism and history.
- Publication date: 11 December 2025
- Page count: 320
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9781501388705
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