'bobrauschenbergamerica' -- Fall 2009 arts picks: 2

Courtesy Planning Ahead, Austin  Tue, 08/25/2009 - 12:03pm

When it debuted in 2003, the New York Times called Charles L. Mee’s homage to Texas-born artist Robert Rauschenberg ‘brashly, unapologetically entertaining.’

A collage theatrical tribute to perhaps the most inventive of all visual collagists, ‘bobrauschenbergamerica’ will get a staging this fall at St.

Edward’s University’s Mary Moody Northen Theatre.

Rauschenberg, who died last year at age 82, embraced pop culture and rejected the angst and self-involvement of the Abstract Expressionists who came to the fore in post-war...



 

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