Lee turned down the boom box because the noises that the cat on the Coltrane record & the guitar Thurston was coaxing forth sounded like something he wanted to hear, to experience...to live...but he still periodically blasted forth intervals of Madonna playing the boom box controls like an instrument...in the meanwhile, he was looking around for just the right setup through which to to run his guitar.
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Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1959. Combine on canvas 81 3/4 x 70 x 24 inches.
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