"Accident" is a print about printmaking and Rauschenberg embracing the process | Art, Explained

"It’s just the start of what we now know as the media and the barrage of information that infiltrates our daily life."

"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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Photography by Juan Trujillo

Music by Austin Fisher.
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Accident, Robert Rauschenberg  American, Lithograph
Robert Rauschenberg
1963