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The Invasion of Photography into Rauschenberg's Art and into the Museum By Anita Mistry Museums and Galleries: Framing Art (HT52040A) 2004-2005 My chosen book for this essay is On the Museum's Ruins by Douglas Crimp. What interested me about this book was the ideas of the museum, and what was accepted into it, especially when concerning photography. Another idea that came up when reading the chapter I chose to concentrate on also named, "On the Museum's Ruins", was the idea of Robert Rauschenberg's work as being almost an analogy for the museum, where both are made up of diverse elements. The author of the chapter and of the whole book, Douglas Crimp, displays these notions well, also looking into the work of Leo Steinberg, Michel Foucault, Andre Malraux and Hilton Kramer. Douglas Crimp's criticism displays this idea that photography being accepted as a valid artistic medium took over, or at least disrupted the discourse of modernism...

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