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Monogram is one of Robert Rauschenburg's finest examples of his "Combines",a hybrid of painting,sculpture,and assemblage.

 

Robert Rauschenburg (1925-2008)

Monogram (1955-1959)

-oil paper,fabric,printed reproductions, metal,wood,rubber,shoe-heel,tennis ball, on two conjoined canvases with oil on taxidermied Angora goat,with brass plaque and rubber tire on wood platform mounted on wood casters

 

This link explains the different meanings interpreted for the work.Sexual metaphor or a religious offering?An abstract or a joke?

www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2016/december/06/the-...

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