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Monogram
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Monogram
Monogram
Photo: Tobias Fischer/Moderna Museet

Monogram

by Robert Rauschenberg
Artist (USA, 1925 - 2008)
Date1955-1959
MediumOil on canvas, printed paper, textile, paper, metal sign, wood, rubber shoe heel, tennisball, taxidermied angora goat with paint and painted rubber tire
DimensionsYttermått: 106,5 x 160,6 x 163,5 cm
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Credit LineInköp 1965 med bidrag från Moderna Museets Vänner (Önskemuseet)
RoomStudy Gallery 08
Object NumberNMSK 1963
CollectionsThe Museum of Our Wishes, Moderna Museets Vänner
The artwork is not on display
About the artwork Monogram is one of the works Robert Rauschenberg called combines, a kind of hybrid form of painting and sculpture. He found the angora goat in a store for second-hand office furniture. Rauschenberg often used stuffed animals in his combines, giving them a second life. He had originally planned to include the goat in a wall-hung work and mounted it on a shelf next to a painting. In a second version he tried placing it on a base on the floor in front of an upright panel. Finally the goat was simply placed on the painting, changing the axis of the work from vertical to horizontal. In the collage-like painting under the goat a number of newspaper cuttings have been inserted. We see photographs of an astronaut looking up at the sky, and of a funambulist walking on a slack rope across an abyss. Just under the nose of the goat is a picture of four footprints. They are from an experiment in the US Air Force, using footprints as a complement to fingerprints to identify bodies. The work was named after the way the horned billy-goat and the car tyre intertwine, like the letters of a monogram. Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad på undersidan: "RAUSCHENBERG 1959 "MONOGRAM"" Selected exhibition history Pop Art & Nouveau Réalisme, ur samlingarna (1991-1992) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Efterkrigstid till 1970-tal Moderna Museet, Stockholm SPEKTAKULÄRA TIDER 60-talet ur Moderna Museets samling  (den 26 december 2009 - den 27 februari 2011) Moderna Museet Malmö Monogram. Robert Rauschenberg och Moderna Museets samling Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Robert Rauschenberg: Combines (2007) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2010 - Dubbla budskap (2010) Moderna Museet, Stockholm 4 amerikanare; Jasper Johns, Alfred Leslie, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Stankiewicz (1962) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Implosion. Ett postmodernt perspektiv / A Postmodern Perspective (1987-1988) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Givet av MMV (1972) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Mästerverken åter. Verk av spanska konstnärer ur Samling S. runt den återbördade Picassos Källan. (1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Robert Rauschenberg: Combines [Moderna Museet 17/2 - 6/5 2007]4 Amerikanare : Jasper Johns, Alfred Leslie, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Stankiewicz : [Moderna Museet Stockholm 1962]Givet av Moderna Museets vänner : [Moderna Museet : 22.1 - 13.2 1972]Mästerverken åter! Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [6 maj - 27 augusti 1995]The Masterpieces are back! : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [May 6th - August 27th 1995]Implosion : ett postmodernt perspektiv : [Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 24/10 1987 - 10/1 1988]Pop Art & Nouveau realisme : ur Moderna Museets samlingar : Moderna Museet 26.12.1991 - 09.08.1992 Bibliography American Art of the 20th Century, 1959, s 266, ill. nr 496. Baldwin, Carl R., On the Nature of Pop: Right Artist, Right Work, Artforum, juni 1974, s. 34-38. American Pop Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974. Kotz, Mary Lynn, Rauschenberg: Art and Life, New York 1990, s 90-91, ill. s 92. New History of World Art, Shogakukan, 1996, ill. nr. 145. Humfrey, Belinda och Price-Owen, Anne, (red.) David Jones: Diversity in Unity, Steinberg, Cardiff 2000, s 39-40. Leo, Encounters with Rauschenberg, Chicago, Houston 2000, s 54-56. Schneede, Uwe M., Die Geschichte der Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, München 2001, s 54. Taube, Maria, Kärleken och döden: Konst på Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2002, s 56, ill. s 57. Eriksson, Annika, Robert Rauschenbergs Monogram. Verkets väg till Stockholm och tolkningsalternativ, C-uppsats i Konstvetenskap, Stockholms universitet, VT 2006.