When an artist erases another artist's drawing, is it still a drawing, and whose? This work challenges the art definitions and contexts of its time.
Rauschenberg
A portrait of a president transformed by tragedy.
Homage to JFK: Rauschenberg’s Retroactive I
Rauschenberg includes a pillow and a quilt in this work—elements of a bed—but no one will use it for a nap.
Robert Rauschenberg, Bed
Pop seems to glorify popular culture, but a second look reveals a critique of post-war marketing and consumerism.
Pop Art
Clothing, paper, a paint tube, photographs, and a stuffed bald eagle—but it’s more than an accumulation of debris.
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