Sentences with phrase «tantric geography»

The resemblance to flags of the fabric panels in both Tantric Geography and the Jammers series was probably not lost on Johns, who might have seen a winking reference in these works to his own iconic paintings of the American flag.

In the late 1970s, even as Johns curtailed his involvement with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, he might have taken special note of the set Robert Rauschenberg designed for Cunningham's dance Travelogue 1977, a sculptural installation that Rauschenberg titled Tantric Geography (fig. 10).33 The set design was related to a series of works Rauschenberg created in 1975 and 1976 entitled Jammers, which also made use of fabric panels reminiscent of flags or sails, and whose brightly coloured skeins of cotton, muslin and silk drew inspiration from the artist's 1975 visit to Ahmedabad in India to research textiles and printmaking.

Rauschenberg titled his set design Tantric Geography

The phrase «Tantric Geography,» written at the top of the sketch, is the title Rauschenberg gave to his set design.

Costumes and set, entitled Tantric Geography, designed by Rauschenberg for Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Travelogue (1977).