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“ I once heard Jasper Johns say that Rauschenberg was the man who in this century had invented the most since Picasso. What he invented above all was, I think, a pictorial surface that let the world in again... Rauschenberg’s picture plane is for the consciousness immersed in the brain of the city.”

B.W. Joseph, Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the neo-avant-garde, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002, p. 34.