Robert RauschenbergAmerican, 1925–2008Darkness Mother
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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About the work
Six prints are the result of a chance meeting between Robert Rauschenberg and the Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky that was cleverly orchestrated by Tatyana Grosman. The artist and the poet worked side by side in the production of these works in a true collaboration. Although it represents the unlikely partnership of an artist from Texas and a poet from the Soviet Union, the two worked well together, and their finished prints were exhibited at the legendary Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in 1979.
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- Accession number
- 1982.1174
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Meanwhile, in the life of Robert Rauschenberg
The whole life1976
California passes the artists' resale royalty law
Rauschenberg's lobbying was rewarded when the California governor Jerry Brown signed the California Resale Royalty Act of 1976. The artist went on to press for nationwide resale-royalty legislation.
1976–1978
Retrospective in Washington and a US tour
A mid-career retrospective was organised by the National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum) in Washington and toured the United States in 1976–1978. Other accounts date its opening to 1977; the artist showed his best-known works there.
1977
Reunited with Cunningham and Cage for “Travelogue”
For the first time in thirteen years Rauschenberg, Cunningham and Cage collaborated again: he designed the costumes and sets for “Travelogue”. He had not choreographed his own works since 1967 but went on collaborating with choreographers, Trisha Brown among them, for the rest of his career.
