Landmark
Robert Rauschenberg
American, 1925–2008
1968
A large 1968 lithograph in which Rauschenberg assembles torn and transferred photographic fragments—portraits, landscapes, and everyday objects—into a collage-like field that reads like a scattered memory or visual archive.
You first notice the ghostly, off-register black-and-gray images—duplicated faces, railway vistas, a spray-can and clipped snapshots—stuck together with torn edges and washed with pale ochre, as if pinned to a studio wall.
Landmark pushes printmaking into a hybrid, photographic-collage language that collapses painting and popular imagery, helping to open late-20th-century art to appropriation, reproduction, and everyday visual culture.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 41 3/8 x 27 13/16" (105.1 x 70.6 cm); sheet: 42 5/8 x 30 1/8" (108.2 x 76.5 cm)
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Department
Credit
Gift of the Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation
Accession
1613.1968
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