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Robert Rauschenberg's Queer Modernism: The Early Combines and Decoration
Ist Teil von
The Art bulletin (New York, N.Y.), 2010-12, Vol.92 (4), p.348-365
Ort / Verlag
New York: Taylor & Francis
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
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Quelle
Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The Combines that Robert Rauschenberg produced between 1953 and 1956 represent a "queering" of Abstract Expressionism and, by extension, the culture of postwar modernism itself, through the artist's pronounced use of decoration. The decorative materiality of his work is overlooked by current scholarship, which frames the Combines as either a postmodern allegory of representation or an iconographically read revelation of his gay identity. An alternative view is to refuse biography and draw on queer theory's opposition to legible-and legislated-identity to read the decorative as a queerly deconstructive strategy deployed to undermine postwar American art's grand narratives of subjectivity.