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Rauschenberg

The power of his vision fused a bond between American and European art, and between the first and second halves of the century.

Now, on the left and then coming from right you’ll see the bombs. …” Of course, at first we couldn’t lift our eyes off the cross hairs on the middle of our TV screens quickly enough to see anything but the explosion billowing up at us.

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