- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Survival Ethos and Destruction Art (1992)<sup>1</sup>
- Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma (1993)<sup>1</sup>
- Remembering Invisibility: Documentary Photography of the Nuclear Age (1998)<sup>1</sup>
- The Ideal Gifts and <i>The Trinity Session</i> of Istvan Kantor (2014)<sup>1</sup>
- Franz West’s Dialogic <i>Paßstücke</i> (2003)<sup>1</sup>
- 1.1.78—2.2.78: Lynn Hershman’s <i>Roberta Breitmore</i> (1978)<sup>1</sup>
- Larry Miller’s <i>Mom-Me</i> (2003)<sup>1</sup>
- Unbosoming Lennon: The Politics of Yoko Ono’s Experience (1992)<sup>1</sup>
- Burden of Light: Chris Burden (2007)<sup>1</sup>
- <i>Teaching A Dead Hand To Draw</i>: Kim Jones, War, and Art (2007)<sup>1</sup>
- Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency (2009)<sup>1</sup>
- Cloud with Its Shadow Marina Abramović (2008)<sup>1</sup>
- Thunderbird Immolation: William Pope.L and Burning Racism (2002)<sup>1</sup>
- Barbara Turner Smith’s Haunting (2005)<sup>1</sup>
- The Aesthetics of the Misfit: The Case of Henry Flynt and David Tudor (2004)<sup>1</sup>
- Notes on Rudolf Schwarzkogler’s Images of Healing: A Biographical Sketch (1990)<sup>1</sup>
- Rauschenberg’s “Gap” (2014)<sup>1</sup>
- Warhol’s “What?” (2016)<sup>1</sup>
- 7:47 a.m. (The Traumatic Visual Vocabulary of Maurice Benayoun’s So.So.So. Somebody, Somewhere, Some Time) (2011)<sup>1</sup>
- Wangechi Mutu’s Family Tree (2013)<sup>1</sup>
- Index
Rauschenberg’s “Gap” (2014)1
Rauschenberg’s “Gap” (2014)1
- Chapter:
- (p.287) Rauschenberg’s “Gap” (2014)1
- Source:
- Concerning Consequences
- Author(s):
Kristine Stiles
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter examines Robert Rauschenberg's attempt “to act” in “that gap” between art and life in his effort to avoid the incommensurability of what he called the “blinding fact” of both. In 1959, Rauschenberg declared: “Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)” By 1977, Rauschenberg's “act in the gap” had become a maxim for experimental art. His appropriated imagery, combined with photography and painting, would soon also be recognized as the antecedent for visual aspects of postmodernism, especially neo-expressionist painting, in the 1980s. The chapter discusses Rauschenberg's notion of art and life as well as his views on ethics, along with his 1991 work of art Litercy (Phantom).
Keywords: art, Robert Rauschenberg, life, painting, experimental art, imagery, photography, ethics, Litercy (Phantom), gap
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Survival Ethos and Destruction Art (1992)<sup>1</sup>
- Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma (1993)<sup>1</sup>
- Remembering Invisibility: Documentary Photography of the Nuclear Age (1998)<sup>1</sup>
- The Ideal Gifts and <i>The Trinity Session</i> of Istvan Kantor (2014)<sup>1</sup>
- Franz West’s Dialogic <i>Paßstücke</i> (2003)<sup>1</sup>
- 1.1.78—2.2.78: Lynn Hershman’s <i>Roberta Breitmore</i> (1978)<sup>1</sup>
- Larry Miller’s <i>Mom-Me</i> (2003)<sup>1</sup>
- Unbosoming Lennon: The Politics of Yoko Ono’s Experience (1992)<sup>1</sup>
- Burden of Light: Chris Burden (2007)<sup>1</sup>
- <i>Teaching A Dead Hand To Draw</i>: Kim Jones, War, and Art (2007)<sup>1</sup>
- Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency (2009)<sup>1</sup>
- Cloud with Its Shadow Marina Abramović (2008)<sup>1</sup>
- Thunderbird Immolation: William Pope.L and Burning Racism (2002)<sup>1</sup>
- Barbara Turner Smith’s Haunting (2005)<sup>1</sup>
- The Aesthetics of the Misfit: The Case of Henry Flynt and David Tudor (2004)<sup>1</sup>
- Notes on Rudolf Schwarzkogler’s Images of Healing: A Biographical Sketch (1990)<sup>1</sup>
- Rauschenberg’s “Gap” (2014)<sup>1</sup>
- Warhol’s “What?” (2016)<sup>1</sup>
- 7:47 a.m. (The Traumatic Visual Vocabulary of Maurice Benayoun’s So.So.So. Somebody, Somewhere, Some Time) (2011)<sup>1</sup>
- Wangechi Mutu’s Family Tree (2013)<sup>1</sup>
- Index
