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Water Stop
Purchased 1981
adults
architecture
emotions, concepts and ideas
food and drink
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fragmentation
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ice cream
Kennedy, Robert F.
magazine - non-specific
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named individuals
newspaper - non-specific
objects
people
photographic
politician - non-specific
politics and society
politics: Robert Kennedy, candidacy for President, 1968
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paper print lithograph
Water Stop
image: 1375 × 806 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07444</b> WATER STOP 1968
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<br/>Inscribed ‘Rauschenberg 68’ bottom right and ‘TP 2/2’
<br/>Lithograph, printed and published by Universal Limited Art Editions in an edition of 28, 54 1/4×31 3/4 (137.5×80.2)
<br/>Purchased from Universal Limited Art Editions (Grant-in-Aid) 1980
<br/>Lit: op.cit., Pennsylvania no.53 op.cit., Minneapolis no.50
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<br/>One of Rauschenberg's most complex <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>prints</span></a>, made between Autumn 1967 and May 1968, the print contains imagery relating to Robert Kennedy's candidacy for President. 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/e/edition" title="Glossary definition for 'Edition'"><span>edition</span></a> was completed a week before his assassination. In this and other prints of the same date Rauschenberg used current magazines from the news stands for source material, seeking a vivid immediacy and relevance that his accumulated stocks of source material could not supply.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1984
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2004-10-11T00:00:00
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adults architecture emotions, concepts and ideas food and drink formal qualities fragmentation history ice cream Kennedy, Robert F. magazine - non-specific man named individuals newspaper - non-specific objects people photographic politician - non-specific politics and society politics: Robert Kennedy, candidacy for President, 1968 public service railway reading, writing, printed matter townscapes / man-made features work and occupations