Jap from Ruminations
Robert Rauschenberg
American, 1925–2008
1999
A photolithograph by Robert Rauschenberg that layers photographic fragments, a dissolving American flag, and inky washes to unsettle national symbols and personal memory.
You first notice a ghostly, half-erased flag breaking into splattered ink, with a solitary, pensive man crouched within the blots, all floating in a broad field of white.
Typical of Rauschenberg’s late practice, it fuses photography and painterly gesture to appropriate and question mass imagery, expanding printmaking’s capacity for associative and politically charged expression.
Medium
Photolithograph
Dimensions
composition: 18 1/2 x 18 1/8" (47 x 46 cm); sheet: 19 11/16 x 25 13/16" (50 x 65.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Emily Fisher Landau
Accession
1361.2000
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