2 works on fabric, lithograph and screenprint
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Purchased 1982
‘Kouros’, sculpture
car
cloth
emotions, concepts and ideas
fine art and design, named works
formal qualities
miscellaneous
objects
photographic
religious and ceremonial
shroud
society
transport: land
paper print 2 works fabric lithograph screenprint
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displayed: 1720 × 2016 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rauschenberg-preview-p07715" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07715</span></a> <b>Preview</b> 1974
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<br/>From Hoarfrost Editions Lithograph with newsprint, screenprint transfers and collage on silk chiffon and silk taffeta fabric 68 7/8 × 80 1/2 (1750 × 2045) overall, printed by Ron McPherson, Charly Ritt, Anthony Zepeda, Ed Hamilton, Robert Knisel and Jeffery Wasserman at Gemini GEL, Los Angeles and published by Gemini GEL in an edition of 32
<br/>Inscribed ‘Rauschenberg 74’ b.l. and ‘A P II’
<br/>Purchased from Delahunty Gallery, New York (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
<br/><i>Lit</i>: Ruth E. Fine, Gemini GEL Art and Collaboration, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. November 1984-February 1985, pp.112–13 (repr. in col.)
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<br/>Ruth Fine writes that the images employed in the Hoarfrost <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/edition" title="Glossary definition for 'Edition'"><span>Editions</span></a>, of which there were nine, were taken from newspaper and magazine <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photographs</span></a> either transferred direct or from specially printed offset <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithographs</span></a> depicting similar material. She states that the difference in the source of the pictorial matter is crucial to the variations in scale. In Preview, large, powerful images - <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/classicism" title="Glossary definition for 'Classicism'"><span>classical</span></a> <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculpture</span></a> and classic cars - evoking memories of earlier centuries or decades, are in marked contrast to the small scale documentary newspaper events.
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<br/>Fine describes how Rauschenberg, in the company of Rosamund Felsen, purchased the fabrics for the series in Los Angeles and how he also selected the printed matter there.
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<p>A group of magazine subjects, some as small as two by three inches, was enlarged many times to poster size, and then reprinted by offset. Approximately one hundred copies of the Los Angeles Sunday Times were separated into sections and organised into neat, discrete piles (a pile of one hundred magazine covers, for example, next to a pile of one hundred front sheets from the entertainment section). These piles and the enlarged offset sheets were in effect Rauschenberg's palette.</p>
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<p>For his master proofs, which preceded the printers' right-to-<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> proofs, Rauschenberg arranged the sheets of newspaper (some crumpled, some flat) and the offset images on the bed of the lithography press. Under pressure... and with the use of special solvents, the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/ink" title="Glossary definition for 'Ink'"><span>ink</span></a> from the images was transferred to the various fabrics lying on top of the newspaper-offset <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a>.</p>
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<p>Each printer developed his own system for approaching the editions. Some assembled the necessary material for each impression piece by piece. Others made the equivalent of prefabricated print kits in advance, each one containing all of the necessary elements for a single impression: so many flat sheets of newspaper, so many crumpled sheets, and so many offset sheets.</p>
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<br/>In addition to the lithographs Rauschenberg also made a series of unique works with the same title which are broadly similar. Some of the source material is common to the unique and printed works. The title of the series is ‘named for the frozen dew that forms a white coating of minute ice needles on surfaces exposed to temperatures below freezing point’ (Robert Rauschenberg, exhibition catalogue, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 1976-January 1977, p.142).
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<br/><span>P07715</span> is one of ten artist's proofs.
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<br/>This entry has been approved by the artist.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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2004-10-13T00:00:00
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car cloth emotions, concepts and ideas fine art and design, named works formal qualities ‘Kouros’, sculpture miscellaneous objects photographic religious and ceremonial shroud society transport: land