Bazaar
Robert Rauschenberg
American, 1925–2008
1984
A photoetching and lithograph print in which Rauschenberg layers photographic fragments, patterned motifs, and torn fabric-like imagery to conjure the crowded, sensory feeling of a bazaar.
You are struck by a vertical stack of rectangular photos and blocks of red-striped and polka-dotted fabric that ripple, overlap, and puncture a wide white field, so that glimpses of people, textures, and patterns appear like memory fragments.
By treating printmaking as collage, Rauschenberg helped dissolve boundaries between photography, painting, and found objects, opening print media to layered narratives of mass culture, trade, and fragmented memory.
Medium
Photoetching and lithograph
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 31 1/2 x 24 1/8" (80 x 61.2 cm); sheet: 42 3/16 x 29 3/4" (107.1 x 75.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Emily Fisher Landau
Accession
22.1985
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