Gavin Parkinson is Professor of European Modernism, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK.

Parkinson’s expansive study opens up poetic, allusive, and sometimes political layers in Rauschenberg ’s works, unearthing important responses from Parisian critics and writers. This approach unexpectedly establishes Rauschenberg’s Surrealist inflected roots, whilst contributing to the recent wave of expanded consideration of post-war, later Surrealism.

• Introduction1. Poet: Allegory and Metaphor in US Art History and Criticism2. In the Surrealist Domain: Bed and Target with Plaster Casts3. Opposer: The Poetics and Politics of Canyon in Paris and New York, 19614. Surrealist of the Re-Found Object: Monogram in Front Unique5. Resistance Artist: Bed at Anti-Procès6. The Constantin Guys of the Atomic Era: Alain Jouffroy, Talisman and Barge7. Choisiste: ‘Things’ in French and US Art Criticism in the 1960s8. Surrealist in Irony: José Pierre and Trophy III (for Jean Tinguely)Concluding Remarks: On Robert Rauschenberg, Surrealism and Art History

Gavin Parkinson is Professor of European Modernism, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK.

Parkinson’s expansive study opens up poetic, allusive, and sometimes political layers in Rauschenberg ’s works, unearthing important responses from Parisian critics and writers. This approach unexpectedly establishes Rauschenberg’s Surrealist inflected roots, whilst contributing to the recent wave of expanded consideration of post-war, later Surrealism.

• Introduction1. Poet: Allegory and Metaphor in US Art History and Criticism2. In the Surrealist Domain: Bed and Target with Plaster Casts3. Opposer: The Poetics and Politics of Canyon in Paris and New York, 19614. Surrealist of the Re-Found Object: Monogram in Front Unique5. Resistance Artist: Bed at Anti-Procès6. The Constantin Guys of the Atomic Era: Alain Jouffroy, Talisman and Barge7. Choisiste: ‘Things’ in French and US Art Criticism in the 1960s8. Surrealist in Irony: José Pierre and Trophy III (for Jean Tinguely)Concluding Remarks: On Robert Rauschenberg, Surrealism and Art History

Gavin Parkinson is Professor of European Modernism, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK.

Parkinson’s expansive study opens up poetic, allusive, and sometimes political layers in Rauschenberg ’s works, unearthing important responses from Parisian critics and writers. This approach unexpectedly establishes Rauschenberg’s Surrealist inflected roots, whilst contributing to the recent wave of expanded consideration of post-war, later Surrealism.

• Introduction1. Poet: Allegory and Metaphor in US Art History and Criticism2. In the Surrealist Domain: Bed and Target with Plaster Casts3. Opposer: The Poetics and Politics of Canyon in Paris and New York, 19614. Surrealist of the Re-Found Object: Monogram in Front Unique5. Resistance Artist: Bed at Anti-Procès6. The Constantin Guys of the Atomic Era: Alain Jouffroy, Talisman and Barge7. Choisiste: ‘Things’ in French and US Art Criticism in the 1960s8. Surrealist in Irony: José Pierre and Trophy III (for Jean Tinguely)Concluding Remarks: On Robert Rauschenberg, Surrealism and Art History