Considered one of the most vital performance artists of the late 1960s, Robert Whitman combined multiple mediums - including filmed visuals, extraneous sounds, live theatrics and creative lighting - to generate a unique effect. The Microcinema release Robert Whitman: Performances from the 1960s showcases three films of works by Whitman. At its core are filmed recordings of the artist's 'American Moon' (1960) and 'Flower' (1963) - each shot by Whitman as personal documents - plus brief documentaries about those works. This ...
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Considered one of the most vital performance artists of the late 1960s, Robert Whitman combined multiple mediums - including filmed visuals, extraneous sounds, live theatrics and creative lighting - to generate a unique effect. The Microcinema release Robert Whitman: Performances from the 1960s showcases three films of works by Whitman. At its core are filmed recordings of the artist's 'American Moon' (1960) and 'Flower' (1963) - each shot by Whitman as personal documents - plus brief documentaries about those works. This release also incorporates: a film of a recent rendition of Whitman's 'Prune Flat' - originally mounted in 1965; numerous interviews with other conceptual artists including Claes Oldenburg and Jim Dine, as well as Whitman himself; and a glimpse of Whitman's 2002 work 'Ghost.' Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Robert Whitman; Trisha Brown; Jim Dine; Simone Forti; Claes Oldenburg. Very Good. Run time: 157 mins. Language: English. Used-Very Good Condition. Disc(s) is in great condition with no significant scratches or marks. Includes original artwork.
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VG. Size: 7x5x0; Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Very nice clean copy. In the 1960s a group of New York painters and sculptors propelled their art into three-dimensional space and moved? t through time, creating radical new forms of artists' theater. Working with each other in down-town lofts and found spaces, these artists injected new sources of energy and innovation? into the theatrical experience. Robert Whitman created some of the earliest and most important performance works of the 1960s. In his performances, the poetic and often surprising interaction of film, lights, sound, performers, props, and objects that take on a life of their own create a dense visual, non-narrative dramatic structure. Included is original footage of The American Moon (1960) and Flower (1963), both filmed by Whitman as notes to himself, and short documentaries about the works-featuring interviews with Trisha Brown, Jim Dine, Simone Forti, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, and the artist. A recent performance of Prune Flat (1965) is accompanied by an interview with Whitman on the piece. A bonus video presents Ghost, Whitman's latest theater work, first performed in September 2002, with notes by Lynne Cooke and Anne Glimcher. This DVD captures for the viewer some of the most important and seminal examples of this ephemeral art form. It makes avail-able for the first time original recordings of three of Whitman's 1960s performances and documents the creative thinking of an innovative artist-and the artistic climate of the time.
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