La Belle Epoque: Evoking Proust's Place and Time
Elizabeth Jameson: Splendorform
The Photographic Impulse: Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection
Imaging the Orient
Along the Silk Road: Rugs and Textiles from Syria to China
Cheap Thrills: Great Designs for $5 or Less
Worn: Social Roles Revealed
Superflat
Jeffry Mitchell: HanabukiRauschenberg, Booster
North Galleries
October 1, 2002 – November 17, 2002
This third “Short Stories” chapter featured one of Robert Rauschenberg’s best-known graphic works, “Booster”. Produced in 1967, “Booster” was donated to the Henry’s permanent collection by Anne Gerber, who also donated a suite of seven additional lithographs known as the “Test Stones”. Focusing on these works as key objects in the collection provided an ideal springing point for examining the next stage in Rauschenberg’s art, his embrace of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) movement. The complex relationship between “Test Stones” and “Booster” provokes an extended dialogue between the attentive viewer and the bodily quality of the full-scale X-ray that dominates the work. Both hint at some of the ideas Rauschenberg and his collaborators would explore in later E.A.T. experiments.