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RAUSCHENBERG, ROBERT Opal Gospel. 10 color screenprints on ten movable sheets of acrylic fitted into a lucite base, all sheets incised with signature, date, and numbered 20/24; the cover incised with Rauschenberg's signature. Plates measure 456x558mm; 18x20 inches. Housed in original screenprinted stainless steel cover. Overall dimensions 523x167x570 mm; 20 5/8x6 5/8x22 1/2 inches. Briarcliff Manor, NY: Racolin Press, 1971
number 20 of 230 copies. Rauschenberg had long worked with printed matter when he made this, his first `book.' But he redefined the basic book--an object filled with a sequence of elements--by taking new materials and using old ones differently. From an aluminum framework, plexiglass sheets, and transferred preprinted images, he made an object in which the individual plexiglass `pages' could be moved directionally and sequentially by the viewer"--Castleman 226. Foster 22.
