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Product Identifiers

PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300221568

ISBN-139780300221565

eBay Product ID (ePID)228749897

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRauschenberg / Dante : Drawing a Modern Inferno

Publication Year2017

SubjectHistory / Contemporary (1945-), Mixed Media, Individual Artists / Monographs, Poetry, European / Italian

TypeTextbook

AuthorEd Krcma

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Art

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight30.5 Oz

Item Length1 in

Item Width0.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2016-036157

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Ed Krcma . . . is to be congratulated on this richly illustrated book, which tells us how a medieval Christian poet served as unlikely inspiration for a Texas-born, Neo-Dada maverick."--Ian Thomson, TLS "One of history's most unlikely yet successful pairings of art and poetry is Robert Rauschenberg's subtle illustrations to Dante's epic of spiritual enlightenment, rendered in the media-drenched language of everyday American life in the climate of the cold war. A lively, elegantly produced account, in reading-size format." --Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, "One of history's most unlikely yet successful pairings of art and poetry is Robert Rauschenberg's subtle illustrations to Dante's epic of spiritual enlightenment, rendered in the media-drenched language of everyday American life in the climate of the cold war. A lively, elegantly produced account, in reading-size format." --Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal741.973

SynopsisDante's Inferno inspired Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) to create a series of 34 drawings that comprise one of the most remarkable creative enterprises of 20th-century American art. Completed between 1958 and 1960, XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Inferno introduced an innovative transfer process to the artist's tradition of combining found objects and photographic imagery from newspapers and other popular sources. The resulting powerful, abstract narrative runs parallel to Dante's allegorical journey through the underworld. This publication is the culmination of years of research to identify the images used in Rauschenberg's pieces, and Ed KrÄ�ma elucidates the work's deliberate commentary on the fraught political climate of the Cold War and its overall significance for the career of one of the postwar era's most influential figures. Exemplifying Rauschenberg's aptitude for collapsing distinctions between various disciplines, his interpretation of Dante's Inferno is explored in depth for the first time in this groundbreaking book., Dante's Inferno inspired Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) to create a series of 34 drawings that comprise one of the most remarkable creative enterprises of 20th-century American art. Completed between 1958 and 1960, XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Inferno introduced an innovative transfer process to the artist's tradition of combining found objects and photographic imagery from newspapers and other popular sources. The resulting powerful, abstract narrative runs parallel to Dante's allegorical journey through the underworld. This publication is the culmination of years of research to identify the images used in Rauschenberg's pieces, and Ed Krcma elucidates the work's deliberate commentary on the fraught political climate of the Cold War and its overall significance for the career of one of the postwar era's most influential figures. Exemplifying Rauschenberg's aptitude for collapsing distinctions between various disciplines, his interpretation of Dante's Inferno is explored in depth for the first time in this groundbreaking book.

LC Classification NumberPQ4329.K73 2017