Image of book cover, Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History Edited by Sara Sinclair along with book launch information listed below.

When: Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Where: RIZZOLI BOOKSTORE, 1133 Broadway, New York, NY 10010

Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History, a work of collaborative oral biography, tells the story of one of the twentieth century’s great artists through a series of interviews with key figures in his life, illuminating his inner life and its effect on his and others’ art. Editor Sara Sinclair will be joined in conversation by Julia Blaut (Robert Rauschenberg Foundation) and Dorothy Lichtenstein (Roy Lichtenstein Foundation) to discuss Rauschenberg’s life and art.

“Fall in love with Robert Rauschenberg, galactic master of art and life, through his worldwide collaborations.” —Dorothy Lichtenstein, president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

“The informative and entertaining voices of this solid work are as idiosyncratic as the artist himself. This is an excellent history for fans of Rauschenberg and mid-20th-century art.” —Publishers Weekly

“This makes oral history a peculiarly apposite way of approaching him. The voices in Sara Sinclair’s new book appear as randomly put together as do the car tyre and stuffed goat of Rauschenberg’s combine ‘Monogram’. . . . And it is this fabrication that makes Sinclair’s book so fine. Rauschenberg emerges from it less as a painting than as a combine; which is to say, a Rauschenberg.” —Times Literary Supplement