Volume 44, Number 17 · November 6, 1997
The Voracious Eye
By James Fenton
Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective
An exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, September 19, 1997-January 7, 1998. Catalog of the exhibition by Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson.
Guggenheim Museum/Abrams, 629 pp., $45.00 (paper)
What sort of an artist, what sort of a person is Robert Rauschenberg? Walter Hopps, in the catalog he has edited with Susan Davidson, kicks off with a startling comparison: Rauschenberg's 'inventive skills and democratic spirit' recall those of Benjamin Franklin. It turns out that Rauschenberg admires Franklin and once described to Hopps a particularly beautiful experiment of his:
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