The Florida island that revived Rauschenberg

When Robert Rauschenberg arrived on the tiny island of Captiva, Florida, in 1970, he was worn out by life in New York. His star turn in the 1964 Venice Biennale made him famous. But he was lonely, depressed and drinking much more than he was working. Everything was falling apart, he said in a later interview. There was such an abundance of bad news.
As Calvin Tomkins wrote in the book Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg, the critical rap is that he stopped breaking new ground around