Robert Whitman
Playback (Book + Dvd)
Hard cover Edition, large format. Long out of print. One of the pioneers of performance and multimedia work, constantly cited as key to the burgeoning postwar genres now considered standard fare in art galleries and museums, Robert Whitman's work of the 1960s and 1970s has long been inaccessible because of its ephemeral nature. This publication and the exhibition it accompanies are the first to reexamine his seminal early work, begun under the influence of Allan Kaprow in the late 1950s. Early p…
sounds for 4 cinema
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art., 1968, First Edition. EvaTone Soundsheet in Wrappers, Square 8vo, 4pp, 4 b&w illustrations, 2 sided EvaTone 7 inch 33 1/3 flexi-disc. This is the audio documentation of Happenings/Performance artist Robert Whitman's late sixties multi-media installations at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item (catalogued on page 54 of Guy Schraenen's "Vinyl: Records and Covers by Artists") still in the unsent printed mailing envelo…
performances from the \'60s
Robert Whitman is a seminal figure in the context of Expanded Cinema and multimedia performance. During the 1960¹s Whitman distinguished himself with sophisticated theatrical works involving interaction between live performers and filmed images. Unlike Jim Dine and Allan Kaprow, whose performances were highly expressionistic, Whitman sought an imagistic theater through works described by Lynne Cooke, Dia's exhibition curator as" magical, poetic, luscious and mysterious. sly one of the least-k…