Trash as a cultural system: (Robert) Rauschenberg, (Andy) Warhol, (Jack) Smith and shifting museum practices.

From: C: International Contemporary Art | Date: May 1, 1998| Author: Monk, Philip | Copyright information

The lives of Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Jack Smith are lessons, for good or ill, in career management. Their popular successes (or lack thereof, in Smith's case) have even determined the ways in which their careers, rather than just their art works, have been assembled recently in three major New York exhibitions. All opened in late 1997: the two-part "Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective" at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum and Guggenheim Museum Soho; "The Warhol Look: Glam...

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