The Importance of Rauschenberg

Tisch was a socialist, realist painter who comes with an authoritarian baggage that doesn't allow him to do anything at all. And he just takes this up and imitates it in the most naive way. As he does this, as he absorbs the whole complicated operation of taking a photograph and erasing it at the same time, which he learns from Rauschenberg, he comes up with locally specific nation-state specific history painting. Right. I know it's a bit complicated, but it is a really complicated process.