Description
This fully illustrated volume is the first comprehensive and scholarly publication to explore the significance of Robert Rauschenberg’s work at Graphicstudio.
Out of the Real World explores the long and fruitful collaborations between the artist Robert Rauschenberg and Donald J. Saff, founder of Graphicstudio, University of South Florida’s renowned atelier, in 1968. Contributors detail Rauschenberg’s collaborative projects that pushed boundaries and redefined our understanding of printmaking. The legacy of the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI) project, operationally headquartered at Graphicstudio and overseen by Saff as artistic director, is examined and reconsidered both geopolitically and through the lens of its resonance with host countries including Chile, China, Mexico, and the former East Germany.
Edited by Mark Fredricks
Contributions by John R. Blakinger, Callan Donahoe, Mark Fredricks, Margaret Miller, Christian Viveros-Fauné and Hanna Weber
Front cover: Detail of Robert Rauschenberg, Studies for Chinese Summerhall V, 1984. Chromogenic print, 30 × 95 inches. Edition of 25. Co-published by Graphicstudio and Gemini G.E.L. University of South Florida Collection.
Author biographies
Mark Fredricks is a research administrator at the USF Institute for Research in Art.
John R. Blakinger is endowed associate professor of Contemporary Art, University of Arkansas, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and a 2018 inaugural Archives Research Resident at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
Callan Donahoe is a recent MA graduate of the USF Art History program.
Margaret Miller directs the University of South Florida (USF) Institute for Research in Art: Contemporary Art Museum / Graphicstudio / Public Art.
Christian Viveros-Fauné has worked as a gallerist, art fair director, art critic, and curator, and is currently serving as curator-at-large at the USF Contemporary Art Museum.
Hanna Weber is a recent MA graduate of the USF Art History program.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction by Margaret Miller
- The Dignity of Subjects: Rauschenberg’s Graphicstudio Works, 1972-1974 by Mark Fredricks
- ‘The World is My Palette’: Reconsidering Rauschenberg’s Overseas Culture Interchange by John R. Blakinger
- Your Question Is My Answer: Robert Rauschenberg and ROCI In Chile by Christian Viveros-Fauné
- Chinese Summerhall by Hanna Weber
- Studies for Chinese Summerhall by Mark Fredricks
- Fifth-Force by Callan Donahoe
- Araucan Mastaba / ROCI CHILE by Callan Donahoe
- Tibetan Garden Song / ROCI TIBET by Hanna Weber
- Bamhue / ROCI JAPAN by Mark Fredricks
- Acknowledgments by Margaret Miller and Mark Fredricks
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Photo Credits
