A taxidermied angora goat, splashed with colours, wears a car tyre around its midriff and stands atop a Schwittersesque collage of wood, images and text. This is probably the most famous of Rauschenberg’s Combines, a technique pioneered by Marcel Duchamp in which objects are taken out of their everyday context and placed together in a kind of 3D collage. Rauschenberg built on Duchamp’s concept to create further dialogues between the readymade, found object, organic, inorganic, the natural and artificial, mechanically produced images, printing, intuitive mark-making and broad expressive brushstrokes. He fused sculpture and painting and incorporated images from art history into collages of utilitarian everyday objects and newspaper images. The collision of these different elements often appeared to create sequences and implied narratives.
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