top:
Merce Cunningham
Dance Company’s
Antic Meet (1958) with
costumes by Robert
Rauschenberg.bottom:
For RainForest (1968),
Andy Warhol let
Cunningham use his
Silver Clouds. Jasper
Johns gave the dancers’
skin-toned costumes
a roughed up appear-
ance with a razor blade.
For this 2011 restaging
of the performance,
the costumes had to
be remade.opposite:
Way Station (2001)
included costumes by
painter James Hall. The
pink tripod was made
by sculptor Charles
Long from foil, wire
lath, steel, and paint.Photos listed below: © Merce Cunningham
Trust, All rights reserved.
(page 52): Merce Cunningham, Antic Meet.
Photo by Richard Rutledge 1958.
(pages 56-57): Merce Cunningham Dance
Company, Antic Meet.
Photo by Marvin Silver 1963. Robert
Rauschenberg, costumes for Antic Meet, 1958.
© 2019 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation /
Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society
(ARS), NY.
Rashaun Mitchell, Marcie Munnerlyn,
Brandon Collwes, RainForest.
Photo by Anna Finke 2011. Jasper Johns,
costumes for RainForest, 1968. © 2019 Jasper
Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights
Society (ARS), NY. Andy Warhol, Silver
Clouds décor for RainForest, 1968. © 2019 The
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts,
Inc. / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights
Society (ARS), NY.
Photos listed below: Collection Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis.
(page 54 top right): Johns, Jasper, set
elements for Walkaround Time, 1968, plastic,
paint, dimensions variable. T. B. Walker
Acquisition Fund, 20 0 0. © 2019 Jasper
Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights
Society (ARS), NY.
Photos listed below: Collection Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis. Walker Art Center,
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Collection, Gift of Jay F. Ecklund, the
Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation,
Agnes Gund, Russell Cowles and Josine
Peters, the Hayes Fund of HRK Foundation,
Dorothy Lichtenstein, MAHADH Fund
of HRK Foundation, Goodale Family
Foundation, Marion Stroud Swingle, David
Teiger, Kathleen Fluegel, Barbara G. Pine,
and the T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2011
(page 50-51): Kawakubo, Rei, costumes for
Scenario, 1997, padded skirts, shirts, tank tops,
pans shorts, dresses, hot pants, dimensions
various. Photograph from Scenario, 1997,
taken by Jacques Moatti at the Opera National
de Paris in January 1998 featuring the
costumes of Rei Kawakubo. Dancers from
L -R: Tom Caley, Banu Ogan, Jeannie Steele,
and Lisa Boudreau. © Merce Cunningham
Trust, All rights reserved.
(page 52-53): Rauschenberg, Robert,
costumes for Interscape (two sets), 20 0 0,
screenprinted unitards, dimensions various.
© 2019 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation /
Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society
(ARS), NY.
(page 54, bottom right): Rauschenberg,
Robert, costumes for Tr a v e l o g u e , 1977,
colorwheel fan skirts, unitards, fitted
legwarmers, silk scarf, knee pad, flowy
cheesecloth tops and leggings, aluminum can
pants, unitard top with arm drapes, wooden
dowels for arm drapes, dimensions various.
© 2019 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation /
Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights
Society (ARS), NY.
(page 54, right): Hare, David and Merce
Cunningham, costume for Mysterious
Adventure, 1945, wool/corduroy body suit,
corduroy collar, headdress with corduroy
hood, hand mitts, dimensions various.
(page 55, left): Rauschenberg, Robert, décor
for Minutiae, 1954/1976, oil, paper, fabric,
newsprint, wood, metal, and plastic with
mirror and string, on wood, 84-1/2 x 81 x
30-1/2 in. overall installed. © 2019 Robert
Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by
VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
(page 55, center): Skinner, Marsha, costumes
for Enter, 1992, long sleeve polo shirts, jump
suit, trousers, unitards with a variety of
sleeve lengths, leggings, silk vest over blouses,
dimensions various. © Merce Cunningham
Trust, All rights reserved.
(page 55, right): Sekula, Sonja, costume for
Dromenon, 1947, painted wool body suit,
60-1/2 x 17 in. © Merce Cunningham Trust,
All rights reserved.
(page 56): Hall, James, costumes for Wa y
Station, 20 01, midriff tops with asymmetrical
sleeves, bottoms with asymmetrical legs,
skirts, shorts, bra tops, extra fabric samples,
dimensions various. Merce Cunningham
Dance Company in Way Station.
© Tony Dougherty.