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| Selected Bibliography |
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Whitman, Robert. "A Statement." In Michael Kirby, Happenings: An Illustrated Anthology. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1965, pp. 134–83.
Robert Whitman: 4 Cinema Pieces. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1968. Text by Jan Van der Mark and an EvaTone Soundsheet by Robert Whitman.
Rose, Barbara. "Considering Robert Whitman." In Projected Images: Peter Campus, Rockne Krebs, Paul Sharits, Michael Snow, Ted Victoria, Robert Whitman. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1974, pp. 38–45.
Palisade: Robert Whitman. Yonkers, N.Y.: Hudson River Museum, 1979. Interview by Barbara Rose.
Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957–1963. Ed. Joan Marter. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, in association with Newark Museum, Newark, N.J., 1999. Interview with Joseph Jacobs.
Robert Whitman: Playback. New York: Dia Art Foundation, 2003. Texts by George Baker, Lynne Cooke, David Joselit, Ben Portis,
and Robert Whitman.
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| Biography |
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Robert Whitman was born in New York City in 1935. He studied literature at Rutgers University from 1953 to 1957 and art history at Columbia University in 1958. He began in the late 1950s to present performances and to exhibit his multimedia work in some of New York's more influential experimental galleries, including the Hansa, Reuben, and Martha Jackson galleries. With the scientists Fred Waldhauer and Billy Klüver and artist Robert Rauschenberg, Whitman founded, in 1966, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a loose-knit association that organized collaborations between artists and scientists. His one-person exhibitions include such venues as the Jewish Museum, New York (1968), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1968), and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1973). Dia organized a retrospective of Whitman's theater works in 1976. Several theater projects have also toured to various European venues, including the the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1987 and 1989) and the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2001 and 2002).
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