Calvin Tomkins’ The Bride and the Bachelors: Five Masters of the Avant-Garde recounts the story of a woman who asked Rauschenberg why he put, say, beds in his paintings or maybe goats. He asked her in return why she wore birds or maybe cherries on her hat.
Maybe she looked like this, in a painting by Noah Davis:
If Rauchenberg was a shock, the adornments of Reid Peppard would have been unimaginable. (Via Jena Scott)
Peppard is a long way from rings on her fingers and bells on her toes. (A chipmunk on YouTube saw her coming.)
Peppard’s combs and hairbands are impressive, but if I had to pick something worthy of mention in the Rauschenberg context, I’d be more likely to go with Melissa Pokorny‘s You and Me and Birdshit.
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