Robert Whitman

by Cooke, Lynne

• ISBN13: 9780944521465
• ISBN10: 0944521460
• Edition: DVD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Dia Art Foundation

Summary

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. The 1960s saw Whitman become highly interested in multimedia projections, which he incorporated into installations as well as into his increasingly elaborate performances. Together with Robert Rauschenberg, Billy Kluver and others, Whitman later spearheaded the collaborations between artists and scientists that resulted in such landmark exhibitions as Art & Technology, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1971 and Pavillion (E.A.T.), at the Pepsi pavillion, Expo 70, in Osaka, Japan. An incisive volume for artists and scholars interested in the major movements of the 1960s and 1970s, including happenings, performance, theater, pop art, multimedia installation work and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 6
Robert Whitman: Playback	p. 8
Prune Flat, 1965	p. 34
Eating and Dreaming: Robert Whitman's 1960s Happenings	p. 44
Through a Glass, Darkly: From Autonomous Artwork to Environmental Spectacle, from Spectator to Specter--Robert Whitman's Art Practice in the 1960s	p. 60
Mr. Whitman's Retro-Scope	p. 88
Light Touch, 1976	p. 99
The Anti-Images of Robert Whitman: The Dante Drawings, 1974-75	p. 114
Dante Drawings, 1974-75	p. 143
Chronology	p. 200
Selected Bibliography	p. 220
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