http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-1925-2008/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:17:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-1925-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-51389 Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008) « Jahsonic Wed, 14 May 2008 11:41:07 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-1925%e2%80%932008/#comment-51389 [...] The painting was described by John Coulthart in 2008 as a work that could easily serve as an illustration to J. G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition. Coulthart added that “Rauschenberg was one of a handful of artists who seemed to depict in visual terms what Ballard was describing in words. In this respect Robert Hughes’s discussion of the “landscape of media” [in The Shock of the New (1980)] (Ballard’s common phrase would be “media landscape”) is coincidental but significant.” [1] [...] [...] The painting was described by John Coulthart in 2008 as a work that could easily serve as an illustration to J. G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition. Coulthart added that “Rauschenberg was one of a handful of artists who seemed to depict in visual terms what Ballard was describing in words. In this respect Robert Hughes’s discussion of the “landscape of media” [in The Shock of the New (1980)] (Ballard’s common phrase would be “media landscape”) is coincidental but significant.” [1] [...]

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