Word: rauschenberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Tatyana Grosman, 78, enterprising print publisher whose enthusiasm and meticulous dedication to excellence raised lithography to a new level and attracted America's leading artists, including some (Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell) who had never worked in that medium; in New York City. Her company, Universal Limited Art Editions, was based at her West Islip, N.Y., garage, which she had turned into a lively atelier. She sometimes spent months foraging for exactly the right paper for artists. Often the size of her editions, perhaps no more than 25, was determined by the number of perfect...
DIED. Betty Parsons, 82, discerning New York City art dealer who championed a stellar stable of abstract expressionists-Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still-in the post-World War II years when others scorned their works; of a stroke; in Southold...
Despite its economic problems, the city has spent a great deal of money assembling an impressive collection of modern art. Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Rauschenberg filled a single long gallery spanning the width of an entire building last summer. One modern art exhibit at the Lehnbachaus sparked controversy for most of July and August...
...recourse to a wide range of materials was another aspect that, while not unique to Dada, influenced many later artists. Hannah Hoch, Raoul Hausmann and others made striking collages in which they jumbled and juxtaposed photographs from newspapers to create disturbing images of dissembled bodies in confused scales. Robert Rauschenberg's collages of the 1960s owe much to the Dada legacy. Duchamp's adoption of ordinary objects in sculpture is analogous to the selection of unadulterated common building materials in post-modern architecture. Frank Gehry's new house in California uses unfinished two-by-fours, asphalt and chain-link fencing...