This exhibition is organized for the Cantor Arts Center by James Merle Thomas (PhD, Art History, Stanford University, 2014) in close collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
On view with a selection of Stoned Moon lithographs are drawings and text for the unpublished Stoned Moon Book, as well as the summary collage Stoned Moon Drawing.
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Also included throughout Stoned Moon Book’s pages are fragments of texts by Rauschenberg and curator Henry T. Hopkins. While Rauschenberg’s texts (written entirely in capital letters) draw directly from his personal experiences visiting Florida to witness the launch, Hopkins’s poetic writings reflect broadly on the relationship between historic events and artistic representation. Through the inclusion of images that more explicitly acknowledge the turmoil of the late 1960s—in particular the Vietnam War—Stoned Moon Book alludes to Rauschenberg’s evolving understanding of NASA as a symbol of “peaceful and scientific” exploration that was nevertheless inextricably linked to the postwar military industrial complex.
Transcriptions for the pages are available in the detailed view for each artwork.
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1. Robert Rauschenberg, Stoned Moon Book, Page 1, 1970; 2. Robert Rauschenberg, Stoned Moon Book, Page 2, 1970; 3. Robert Rauschenberg, Stoned Moon Book, Page 3, 1970; 4. Robert Rauschenberg, Stoned Moon Book, Page 4, 1970; 5. Robert Rauschenberg, Stoned Moon Book, Page 5, 1970; 6. Robert Rauschenberg, Stoned Moon Book, Page 6, 1970; 7. Robert Rauschenberg, Stoned Moon Book, Page 7, 1970; 8. Robert Rauschenberg, Stoned Moon Book, Page 8, 1970; 9. Robert Rauschenberg, Stoned Moon Book, Page 9, 1970; 10. Robert Rauschenberg, Stoned Moon Book, Page 10, 1970; 11. Robert Rauschenberg, Stoned Moon Book, Page 11, 1970
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