RAUSCHENBERG, Robert

His innovations were based upon two principles: that literally everything could be incorporated into painterly art, and that one part of a picture need not dominate, or even relate to, the others. In the first respect, he painted his own bed, transforming a sub-esthetic object into something that was purchased and displayed by the Museum of Modern Art (Bed, 1955); he put a whole stuffed Angora goat into a painted field (Monogram, 1959); added a live radio to another (BroadcastBroadcast...