"It's just the start of what we now know as the media and the barrage of information that infiltrates our daily life."
Curator Samantha Rippner on Robert Rauschenberg's print "Accident."
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"Accident" is a print about printmaking and Rauschenberg embracing the process | Art, Explained
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Robert Rauschenberg
1963