Robert Rauschenberg: Thirty-Four Drawings For Dante’s Inferno - Paperback
To look inside this book, click here. Introduction by Leah Dickerman. With contributions by Kevin Young and Robin Coste Lewis Between 1958 and 1960 Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) produced a series of 34 drawings one for each Canto or section of Dante’s poem The Inferno (1308–1321). Together they are a virtual encyclopedia of modernday imagery made by transferring photographic reproductions from magazines or newspapers onto the drawing surface. “I think a picture is more like the real world when it’s made out of the real world,” Rauschenberg said. With additional imagery in pencil crayon pastel and collage the drawings reflect Rauschenberg’s desire to infiltrate his art with the scenes and sounds of the surrounding world a radical departure from the more transcendent ambitions of Abstract Expressionism. Published by MoMA in conjunction with the first major retrospective on Rauschenberg’s career since the artist’s death in 2008 this book presents the complete set of 34 drawings