mattisonRobert Mattison, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art History, has joined a multi-disciplinary team in the recreation of Paul Taylor’s dance Tracer (1962), the last of 12 collaborations between artist Robert Rauschenberg and Taylor. Mattison has lectured on Rauschenberg’s designs for the sets and costumes at the two premieres of the dance at the University of North Carolina and Rhode Island School of Design. The recreation, which has been covered in The New York Times, was performed in New York City in December 2016. Mattison is the author of Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries (Yale University Press, 2003) – his fifth book – and has written numerous articles and exhibition catalogs on Rauschenberg.