Art in Process. The Visual Development of a Collage. Prepared by Elayne H. Varian with statements by the artists. Special photographic assistance, Bill Wilson.

Oblong quarto, unpaginated, (32 pages), with 20 photographic portraits of the artist, accompanied with a short text. Illustrated wrappers. Light chafing towards spine. Very good. - First edition. Here the rare Finch College catalogue where Rauschenberg is seen in a photograph with 'Short Circuit' (1955), a photograph that plays a major role in the mystery and search around Jasper Johns' stolen flag. For a detailed history of this search, see Greg Allen's article: American Beauty: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and the Case of the Missing Flag, published in ARTnews, May 10, 2016. The exhibition Art in Process. The Visual Development of a Collage opened on March 9, 1967, at Finch College and circulated to several US colleges and institutional venues through late 1968. The artists in this exhibition: Marcelo Bonevardi, John Day, Elias Friedensohn, Edward Giobbi, Al Hansen, Ray Johnson, Roy Lichtenstein, Conrad Marca-Relli, Richard Merkin, Richard Miller, Armando Morales, Claes Oldenberg, George Ortman, Alfonso Ossorio, Paul Pollaro, Joe Rafaelle, Robert Rauschenberg.…