he reversed the process of Bed by
removing the painting from the wall and putting it on the
floor with an Angora goat stuffed through a tight and
much worn automobile tyre standing in the middle. The
painting itself, in which collage elements of wood and
metal are united together with broad gestural brush-
strokes of paint, lies unequivocally flat. With its visual
puns, Monogram has both hidden and not-so-hidden
meanings.
One of the artists most affected by the impact of the
home TV set in the 1960s was Rauschenberg. The daily and
nightly parade of interchangeable images which become
almost Surrealist in their arbitrary juxtapositions, turning
everything into a disposable spectacle, renewed his interest
in creating two-dimensional works. He had begun already
to adapt a frottage technique for transferring magazine or
newspaper pictures by a process of silk-screen stencilling