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        "tombstone": "Surface Series from Currents, 1970. Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925\u20132008), Dayton's Gallery 12 and Castelli Graphics. Screenprint; sheet: 111.6 x 111.6 cm (43 15/16 x 43 15/16 in.); image: 89 x 89 cm (35 1/16 x 35 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Joseph and Lucy Russell, 2011.109. \u00a9  Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY",
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                "inscription": "In graphite, lower right margin:  Rauschenberg PP 1/3 70",
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                    "id": 455214,
                    "title": "Photographs in Ink",
                    "description": "<i>Photographs in Ink</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).",
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        "description": "Robert Rauschenberg questioned the relationship of art and the news in a moment of great social and political change. He collaged headlines and images from mainstream and counterculture newspapers published in early 1970. This jumble of scraps evokes the artist\u2019s studio tabletop or a newspaper designer\u2019s light table. To make the final printing plate, Rauschenberg manually cut and pasted different elements together (in the form of photographic negatives), visually presenting the tension between art and the news where the photographs overlap. The gridded arrangement of the halftone dots conflict and create an optical effect known as moir\u00e9 pattern.",
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        "catalogue_raisonne": "Foster 152, no. 115",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:12.115000"
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