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Thirty-four illustrations for Dante's Inferno / Robert Rauschenberg ; essay by Leah Dickerman ; poetry by Robin Coste Lewis, Kevin Young.

Title
Thirty-four illustrations for Dante's Inferno / Robert Rauschenberg ; essay by Leah Dickerman ; poetry by Robin Coste Lewis, Kevin Young.
Author
Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
Publication
  • New York : The Museum of Modern Art, MMXVII.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Dickerman, Leah, 1964-
  • Lewis, Robin Coste
  • Young, Kevin, 1970-
  • Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Description
104 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm
Summary
Between 1958 and 1960, Robert Rauschenberg produced a series of 34 drawings, one for each Canto, or section, of Dante's poem The Inferno (1308-1321). Together they are a virtual encyclopedia of modern-day imagery, made by transferring photographic reproductions from magazines or newspapers onto the drawing surface. "I think a picture is more like the real world when it's made out of the real world," Rauschenberg said. With additional imagery in pencil, crayon, pastel and collage, the drawings reflect Rauschenberg's desire to infiltrate his art with the scenes and sounds of the surrounding world, a radical departure from the more transcendent ambitions of Abstract Expressionism.
Alternative Title
  • Robert Rauschenberg : thirty-four illustrations for Dante's Inferno
  • 34 illustrations for Dante's Inferno
  • Thirty-four illustrations for Dante's Inferno
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Pictures
  • Illustrated works
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 22-23).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Canto by canto: an introduction / Leah Dickerman -- Harrowing: a short history of Hell / Kevin Young -- Poems for Rauschenberg's Dante drawings : Cantos I-XIV: The dark wood / Kevin Young ; Cantos XV-XXXI: Dante comes to America: 20 January 2017: an erasure of 17 cantos from Ciardi's Inferno after Robert Rauschenberg / Robin Coste Lewis ; Cantos XXXII-XXXIV: The dark wood / Kevin Young -- Canto summaries for Dante's Inferno / Michael Sonnabend.
ISBN
  • 1633450295
  • 9781633450295
LCCN
^^2017936943
OCLC
  • 959038638
  • SCSB-10448182
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library