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The Joy of Art:
This Time cover, taken from a collage self-portrait by the artists Robert Rauschenberg, plays off the 1970s best-selling book, The Joy of Sex, suggesting the ways in which artistic creativity could be equally as exciting -- and productive. By the 1970s, Rauschenberg was firmly established as a major American artist, and he poses himself against artifacts both from his artistic career and scenes from his life on Captiva Island, Florida. The two figures on the upper left are Rauschenberg and his then-partner Terry Van Brunt, the latter rendered ambiguously invisible by the lettering of Time's cover, suggesting that the joy of sex did not extend to gay men. |