this is a rauschenberg called trophy iii.hat rauschenberg does is to insist that the surface of the canvas is no longer a window into which we look or through which we look, a window that opens onto another world as say, this little porthole that i'm looking through that opens onto the skyline of new york. i can see the empire state building through it. rather, what we have is the surface of the canvas as a horizontal field, like a desk top, like the working surface of somebody's studio or somebody's writing table, onto which junk is piled-- mail, post cards, posters, advertisements, records, magazines, newspapers-- a kind of tremendous clutter of banal experience that interpolates even great art into that clutter, as here in rauschenberg's small rebus. rauschenberg went on to build a wall of information by silk-screening photographic images onto canvas, as in this work called port arthur, texas. the result is that everything here is homogenized in the uniform surface of photographic information. we may think of photography a