In a career of nearly 60 years, Robert Rauschenberg changed the course of art history, art making, and viewers' experience of art. An artist of protean creativity, he transformed the mediums of sculpture, painting, prints, and photography.

Rauschenberg elevated seemingly casual, everyday images. He also embraced discarded and found materials, reintroducing content to art after decades when abstraction held sway. This book covers the full span of the artist's career, from 1950 to 2007, focusing on key works from the collection of the artist’s estate.

Robert Rauschenberg includes many works that have not been shown since they were first made and exhibited more than 30 years ago, as well as masterpieces that have recently been seen in museum exhibitions.

Texts by James Lawrence and John Richardson are accompanied by more than 60 color illustrations, and more than 50 black-and-white historical photographs. Also featured is an extensive chronology by Susan Davidson detailing the artist's life and career that is destined to become a fundamental reference for students of Rauschenberg’s influential oeuvre.

Jack Lawrence is a critic and historian of postwar and contemporary art.

Curator and art historian John Richardson is the renowned author of the multi-volume biography A Life of Picasso.

Author — James Lawrence and John Richardson.

Hardcover. 256 pages. 10½" × 13" (25 cm × 33 cm).