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Surface Series from Currents #48,
1970
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Special Exhibition
One of Rauschenberg’s first explicitly political works, <em>Surface Series from Currents</em> (1970) is a portfolio of eighteen photomontages that feature headlines, photographs, and ads from the January and February 1970 editions of the <em>New York Times</em>, <em>New York Daily News</em>, and <em>Los Angeles Times</em>. <em>Currents</em>, referring both to current events and to the currents sweeping through the country, contemplates the visual ways that modern culture communicates its values. No. 48 of this series offers a glimpse of the headline “Anti-War Marchers Back GE Strike,” referring to the General Electric Strike of 1969–70, which was harnessed by the anti-war movement as an opportunity to reach new constituencies.
Information
1970
North America, United States, New York, New York
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<p>"Rauschenberg Currents" (Minneapolis: Dayton’s Gallery 12, 1970).</p>, nos. 37–53
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"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1983," <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</em> 43, no. 1 (1984): p. 18-42., p. 28, p. 30 (illus.)
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Johanna Burton et al., <em>Pop art: contemporary perspectives,</em> (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT: distributed by Yale University Press, 2007), fig. 3, p. 101, illustrated; p. 151, illustrated
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