Robert Rauschenberg interview on Charlie Rose (1998) . Rauschenberg Research Project Sfmoma
Rauschenberg Research Project
The Rauschenberg Research Project provides free worldwide access to a
wealth of scholarly research and documentation relating to artworks by
Robert Rauschenberg in SFMOMA’s permanent collection. The museum’s
holdings span the artist’s career from 1949 to 1998 and include
Combines, sculptures, paintings, photographs, and prints and other works
on paper. A rich range of materials surrounds the featured works,
including newly commissioned essays, numerous images,
In this carefully staged photograph of the artist lying beneath one of
his own canvases, the majority of the composition is devoted to the
unswept studio floor, inverting the usual relationship between horizon
and foreground. As Postcard Self-Portrait, Black Mountain (II) (1952)
attests, Robert Rauschenberg became deeply engaged with mid-century
experimental and abstract photography while studying at Black Mountain
College