Whether in reaction to
the insecurities of his new situation, or (more likely) in a flush of strength drawn from a new comfort in a reworked identity, Rauschenberg was able to combine New York painting of the fifties with the fabric and newspaper - picture collage of his boyhood environment to make something new and lasting.
Our criticism
of them [the
new points
of view], and our attempts at a solution
of our own we must then view in the light
of the
insecurity of the present
situation, as attempts, not as final words.