Summary
Some 20th century American artists are household names in Scotland, and others are better described as artists' artists. Some fit neatly into the story of modern art, and others? Others are like Robert Rauschenberg.
The work of Rauschenberg, who died just three years ago, is not as easy to spot as that of Ed Ruscha or as notorious as that of Andy Warhol. But without him, neither of those artists would have got off the starting blocks. Rauschenberg was the man who came to New York and threw out the rule book, changing the game for artists all over the world. A new exhibition just opened at Edinburgh's Inverleith House will show us how.See the full content of this document
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On a Revolutionary Road
Rauschenberg didn't always want to be an artist; for long enough he didn't even know that art existed beyond the pictures on a deck of cards. Born in 1925 to fundamentalist Christian parents in Port Arthur, Texas, it wasn't until he went on shore leave from the navy that he first encountered fine art, in the form...
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