Why?
Because this is a beginning...in 1981, and we have become accustomed - so accustomed - to seeing images melded together in our post MTV, Instagramable world that it's good to remember.
Remember the newsprint, the cloth, the cardboard. Of course we could go all the way back to Picasso and Braque 1913, but I'll bet Mr. Rauschenberg saw that too.
Hang it up and let it dry and don't forget the palm trees.
Go to LACMA for this extraordinary show.
http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/rauschenberg-14-mile