The Pop Art Tradition - Responding to Mass-Culture by Eric Shanes

Author:Eric Shanes [Shanes, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Parkstone International

Robert Rauschenberg, Kite, 1963. Oil and silkscreen on canvas, 213.3 x 152.4 cm. Ileana and Michael Sonnabend collection. Art © 2006 Robert Rauschenberg/ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

The Cuban missile crisis, which brought the world to the very brink of nuclear catastrophe, occurred not long before Rauschenberg painted this picture, and the United States was also militarily engaged elsewhere by 1963. With its American bald eagle, US Army helicopter and battle scene from the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, the picture brings together images associated with both patriotism and conflict. Such links were very prescient, for as the 1960s progressed the United States would become increasingly bogged down in Vietnam, with its domestic, political and social structures progressively coming under strain as a result. The dynamic paintwork and plenitude of spatters augment a pictorial restlessness that fully projects the instability of the day.

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