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Title Composition from Tares

Creator Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008

Date Created 1972

Place Kansas, Michigan, New York Metropolitan Area, Pennsylvania

Language English

Subjects Collage, American, Roads, Hairstyles, Black people, African American men

Summary Collage with trimmed sections of road maps showing the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, portions of Westchester and Long Island in New York, western Pennsylvania, and eastern Kansas, as well as magazine and newspaper clippings showing different types of hairstyles on African American men and other scenes. This is one collage in a series known as "Tares". In the words of the artist, "Tares is an edition of torn forms programatically placed, but different in content with in a repetative composition. The progressive relationship is situational and uncontroled. The method is glue and a litho press. The results is an edition of 57 collages having as much simularity as differences" (Hopps, W., Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective, page 382).

Extent 1 picture : collage of printed maps and magazine and newspaper clippings ; sheet 83 x 60

Format Maps, Portraits, Collages, Road maps, Clippings (information artifacts)

Rights Status In Copyright

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

Projects Tag Mapping Outside the Lines

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Call Number Case oversize N6537.R27 A64 1972

BibID 9911657732005867

IIIF Resource Type Manifest

IIIF Resource ID https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8Z8LT8JRH

Original File Name 9911657732005867_case_n6537_r77_a64_1972

Unique identifier NL12VR42

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