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 performances, in conjunction with fellow artists Jim Dine and Claes Oldenburg, paralleled exhibitions in some of the more influential experimental galleries of the time, including Hansa, Reuben and Martha Jackson. This book comes with a DVD including The American Moon, Flower, Prune Flat, and an interview with the artist as well as commentary on the films. Edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly with Bettina Funcke. Texts by Lynne Cooke, David Joselit, George Baker, Ben Portis, and Robert Whitman
Cat. number: 9780944521465
Year: 2002
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.
