Laura Paulson, Christie's Deputy Chairman of Post-War & Contemporary Art, discusses Robert Rauschenberg‘s The Tower, 1957, one of the most important of the three-dimensional Combines created between 1954 and 1962 . Rauschenberg combined painting and sculpture using the detritus of daily life along with found objects and non-art materials to create a defining new aesthetic and visual language that embraced the shared qualities of painting, sculpture and performance. (RT: 4:21)
9 May 2011Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale
11 May 2011 New York, Rockefeller Plaza.
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