File under: Records By Artists
Robert Whitman
Sounds For 4 Cinema Pieces
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 envelope.
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File under: Records By Artists
Cat. number: no-cat n.
Year: 1968
Notes:
Record was the invitation card for Robert Whitman exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago April 12-May 19, 1968.
It comes in a white envelope printed with the address of the museum and the text : "HI-FI SOUNDSHEET DO NOT BEND".
"To play fold front cover underneath back cover and place entire booklet on phonograph."
Square softcover housing an EvaTone Soundsheet in titled wrappers. Square 8vo. (measures about 7-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches); unpaginated (4pp) with 4 b/w illustrations + one two-sided EvaTone 7" 33-1/3 RPM flexi-disc.
Essentially an exhibition catalogue in the form of a red flexi-disc attached to two sheets of thin, stiff paper, one sheet having installation photographs, the other with text by Jan van der Marck describing a number of Whitman's works, including: "Window (1963)," "Shower (1964)," "Dressing Table (1964)," " Sink (1964)," as well as "4 Cinema Pieces" which was presented at the Museum.
The recording is comprised of the audio documentation of artist Robert Whitman's late sixties multi-media installations at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.
