Publisher/Stanley Barker

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"The Blueprints, 1950" is a collection of works by American artists Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and Susan Weil (1930-). This book compiles cyanotype works that the two artists collaborated on around 1950 while working around Black Mountain College, and is an important record that conveys the experimental spirit of post-war American art. In the "Blueprints" series, in which human bodies and objects are placed on photosensitive paper and the image is fixed by sunlight, the outlines of bodies and traces of objects faintly emerge from the blue canvas. It is a photographic work that connects to drawing and performance, and was a primal experiment that led to Rauschenberg's later works. On the other hand, what makes this book important is that it makes visible Susan Weil's role in a history that has long been told primarily from Rauschenberg's perspective. It was Weil who introduced the cyanotype technique to Rauschenberg, and the book also includes previously unpublished photographs and interviews documenting the two artists' creative process. This book quietly highlights the collaborative work and intimate relationships among young artists, as well as the presence of female writers who have been overlooked in history.