但丁在1960:劳申伯格《地狱》组画与后现代主义艺术

Dante in 1960:Rauschenberg s“Inferno”Drawingsand Art of Post-Modernism

美国艺术家罗伯特·劳申伯格于1958—1960年创作了在其漫长的职业生涯中少有的插图性作品《地狱》(Inferno)组画。通过溶剂移画(solvent-transfer drawing)的方式,劳申伯格在这34幅作品中以大众媒介的图像为要素,在重绘但丁诗篇的同时,视觉性地重整了美国社会的世俗景观。对劳申伯格《地狱》组画的核心作品的分析围绕以下层面展开:劳申伯格对但丁《地狱》篇的视觉在地性的转换、转印画为这种转换所提供的媒介基础、《地狱》系列的两种阐释路径之争,最后回到“平台式画面”概念,考察劳申伯格与后现代主义艺术的关联。

During 1958 to 1960,American artist Robert Rauschenberg created a series of 34 illustrative drawings,“Inferno”,which is rare in his long career.By applying solvent-transfer drawing,Rauschenberg took mass media as essential element to redraw Dante's poems to visually reorganize the secular landscape of American society.This paper aims to interpret the core works of Rauschenberg s“Inferno”in the following aspects:Rauschenberg's visually vernacular transformation of Dante s“Inferno”;the media foundation provided by transfer painting;the conflict between two illuminating approaches of“inferno”series.In the end,this paper invokes the concept of“flatbed picture plane”to further examine the connection between Rauschenberg and postmodern art.