Horsefeathers Thirteen-IV, 1972
Offset lithograph/screenprint/pochoir/collage/embossing with unique collage
71 x 57 cm
Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York

The Horsefeathers Thirteen series was Rauschenberg's most complicated print project of the early 1970s. Each one in the series is a little different, and could be considered more like unique works than prints. Each exemplifies the artist's overarching aim to 'drag ordinary materials into the art world for a direct confrontation'. Mass media action images, such as athletes running races and rowing, are mixed with more generalised subjects that blend the natural environment with the manufactured environment, such as the 3D colour chart you see here.