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Gustave and the goat: Rauschenberg’s ‘Monogram’ and Courbet’s ‘The painter’s studio’

12/2017 | 1377 | 159

Pages: 956-963

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Author:

Wainwright, Lisa (Wainwright, Lisa)

Subjects

artists:

Rauschenberg, Robert / Courbet, Gustave

dates:

1950-1959

media:

Collages

styles:

American art

works:

Monogram (Moderna Museet, Stockholm) / The painter's studio (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Monogram, by Robert Rauschenberg. 1955–59. Oil, paper, fabric, printed paper, printed reproductions, metal, wood, rubber shoe heel and tennis ball on canvas, with oil on Angora goat and rubber tyre on wood (Moderna Museet, Stockholm).

Attributed works:

10. Detail of Fig.1 showing a photograph of three bankers from Guaranty Bank, taken from Life magazine. (Photograph Lisa Wainwright).

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2. The second state of construction of Monogram, by Robert Rauschenberg. 1956–58. Photographed by Rudy Burckhardt c.1958. (Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York).

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3. Detail of Fig.2.

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4. The painter’s studio: a real allegory summing up seven years of my artistic and moral life, by Gustave Courbet. 1854–55. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).

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5. Robert Rauschenberg with Monogram at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. 1980. (Courtesy Moderna Museet, Stockholm; photograph Harry Nahkala).

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6. Autobiography, by Robert Rauschenberg. 1968. (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).

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7. Detail of Fig.1 showing a signboard fragments spelling ‘DAD’ and collaged images of a highwire walker and the bank interior, taken from Life. (Photograph Lisa Wainwright).

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8. Detail of Fig.1 showing collaged photographs of the crowd at Coney Island and small footprints, both taken from Life. (Photograph Lisa Wainwright).

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9. Detail of Fig.1 showing a photograph of tennis player Earl Buchholz taken from Life. (Photograph Lisa Wainwright).

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