"Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two.)" --Robert Rauschenberg The early 1950s, when Robert Rauschenberg launched his career, was the heyday of the heroic gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. Rauschenberg challenged this tradition, inventing new interdisciplinary models of artistic practice that shaped the decades to come. Published in conjunction with...