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. In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg erased a drawing ... by Dr. Thomas Folland
A portrait of a president transformed by tragedy. Homage to JFK: Rauschenberg’s Retroactive I by Patricia Hickson, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker
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 by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker
Pop seems to glorify popular culture, but a second look reveals a critique of post-war marketing and consumerism. Pop Art by Dr. Virginia B. Spivey
Clothing, paper, a paint tube, photographs, and a stuffed bald eagle—but it’s more than an accumulation of debris. Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon by Dr. Thomas Folland