Tag Archives: Robert Rauschenberg

“In just 27 minutes you can be eating SNOW MAN STEW”

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Christopher George

Life, [General Omar Nelson Bradley], April 9, 1951, p. 1 (photograph by Arnold Newman, 1918-2006) Life’s Cover When the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General of the Army Omar Nelson Bradley, was asked to wear his old, four-star … Continue reading →

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HAPPY Earth Day

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Christopher George

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), Earth Day, 1970 (822.2002) Wu Yinxian, Two Parrots, 1985 (185.1988) Richard Tepe, Two newly-born white birds facing frontward, ca. 1910 – 1940 (323.2001) Harold Edgerton, Hummingbird (71.1987) Masaaki Miyazawa, [Bird], ca. 1983 (77.1985) David Wartersun, Pelicans, ca. … Continue reading →

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Earth Day, 2018

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Christopher George

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), Earth Day, 1970 (822.2002) Louis Bencze, Giraffe, Tampa, Florida, 1990 (274.1991) Lou Bernstein (1911-2005), Newfy, N.Y. Aquarium, 1977 (97.1992) Douglas Faulkner, Golden-Crested Damselfish, Belau Islands (312.1981) David Wartersun, Pelicans, ca. 1990 NASA, [“Nearly full Earth showing Africa, … Continue reading →

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Strangeness and the ordinary

Posted on June 8, 2015 by claartjevandijk

Toby Old,  Hooker’s Ball, Copacabana, NYC, 1976 (274.1995) Toby Old,  Xenon Disco, NYC, 1978 (69.1995) Toby Old,  Body-building Championship, Syracuse, NY, 1980 (64.1995) Toby Old,  FDR Psychiatric Hospital, Montrose, NY, 1988 (76.1995) Toby Old,  FDR Psychiatric Hospital, Montrose, NY, 1989 … Continue reading →

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Say Cheese!

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Meredith Wisner

Alexander Liberman, [Robert Rauschenberg in his studio], ca. 1960 Before the invention of the camera, portraiture was  limited to the wealthier classes.  In large part formulaic, portraits tended to be idealized, and contained signifiers that pointed toward the sitter’s wealth and … Continue reading →

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Earth Day

Posted on April 22, 2009 by erinbarnett

Robert Rauschenberg, Earth Day, 1970 Robert Rauschenberg created this poster for the first Earth Day celebration in 1970. It is part of the Artists’ Poster Committee Collection, which includes more than 200 posters made for distribution in the 1960s and … Continue reading →

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