.

Photographs 

by Trude Guermonprez

Elsesser

Robert Rauschenberg 

and Ingeborg Svarc Lauterstein, 

students at Black Mountain College 

1948-1949

Lauterstein is dressed 

as a centaur or unicorn for a party

Costume designed 

and created by Robert Rauschenberg

From the Black Mountain College 

Research Project Papers, Visual Materials, Box 87, 

courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives

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