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Rauschenberg’s not-so-subtle endorsement of Hillary

The Art Newspaper
12 September 2016
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The Hillary Rodham Clinton Campaign coffers were given a boost by none other than Robert Rauschenberg back in 2000. The US artist designed a limited edition print to support her historic, and successful, attempt to be the first First Lady to win a seat in the Senate. Rauschenberg drew on his vast archive of photographs to create a signature design featuring a running donkey clearly going places, a line of elephants’ backsides and a broom, handy to clear up any dung, presumably. The collage is completed by the star spangled banner hanging above a one-way-street sign in New York (the state Clinton was campaigning to represent). “No point being subtle,” Rauschenberg told the New York Times at the time about the references to the traditional symbols of the Democratic and Republican parties.

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