Transnational Surrealism Ser.: Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism : Art, ...

Robert Rauschenberg and SurrealismArt, 'Sensibility' and War\nAuthor(s): Gavin Parkinson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts\nISBN-13: 9781501358296, 978-1501358296\nSynopsis\nThe art of Robert Rauschenberg [tel] is usually viewed as quite distinct from Surrealism, a movement which the artist himself displayed some hostility towards. However, Rauschenberg had a very positive reception among Surrealists, particularly across the period [tel].\n\nIn the face of Rauschenbergs avowals of his own literalism and insistence on his art as facts, this book gathers generous evidence of the poetic, metaphorical, allusive, associative and connotative dimensions of the artist's oeuvre as identified by Surrealists, and thus extrapolates new readings from Rauschenberg's key works on that basis. By viewing Rauschenbergs art against the expansion of the cultural influence of the United States in Europe in the period after the Second .