Carillon
Robert Rauschenberg
American, 1925–2008
1981
A lithograph in which Rauschenberg layers photographic reproductions, painterly washes, and collaged motifs—like graph paper and stars—to remix American visual fragments into a fractured, associative image.
You first notice a patchwork of ghosted photographs and translucent star patterns overlaid with smeared black washes and a vertical puncture of bright yellow stars that animate the cool, collage-like planes.
Extending his 'Combine' sensibility into printmaking, Rauschenberg here helped dissolve boundaries between painting, photography, and print, showing how appropriated imagery and hand gesture could be recombined to rethink American visual culture.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 40 1/16 x 26 11/16" (101.7 x 67.8 cm); sheet: 40 1/16 x 26 13/16" (101.7 x 68.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Celeste Bartos
Accession
172.1981
Palette
Exhibitions
