This color screenprint of 1970 is an especially powerful example of Rauschenberg's assemblage. Originally conceived as the cover for a magazine, this now-famous photomontage epitomized Rauschenberg's concern for the state of contemporary American society, something that was vital to much of his work. Using images clipped from newspapers and magazines of the day, he elegantly summarized the turbulence of the 1960s, merging images that included U.S. soldiers on patrol in Vietnam; student anti-war protests; astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon; legendary blues singer Janis Joplin; and slain American leaders President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy, and the Reverend Martin Luther King. Signs was, according to the artist, "conceived to remind us of love, terror, violence of the last ten years. Danger lies in forgetting."