Robert Rauschenberg: Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno / Alfred Siemens: The Saint with Earphones – Other Images

File consists of an exhibition pamphlet, correspondence, receipts, press release, catalogue lists, comment booklet, magazine clippings, and newspaper articles. The first exhibition was on loan from The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Rauschenberg produced 34 cantos of the poem through symbols taken from modern life. The pictorial imagery of Dante’s narrative was translated by modern symbols such as racing cars, athletes, warriors in gas masks, as well as abstract equivalents for the emotional impact of sounds and smells. The works were all dated 1959-1960. The second exhibition was a maze of photographic juxtapositions by Alfred Siemens through which the viewer could move in any direction. The exhibitions ran concurrently at the UBC Fine Arts Gallery November 7 to 23, 1968.