Whitman, Robert, 1935-
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Robert Whitman (born 1935 in New York City) is an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making. Since the late 1960s he has worked with new technologies, and his most recent work incorporates cellphones. Whitman studied literature at Rutgers University from 1953 to 1957 and art history at Columbia University in 1958. He is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York.
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| associatedWith | Experiments in Art and Technology (Organization) | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Forti, Simone | person |
| associatedWith | Klüver, Billy, 1927-2004 | person |
| associatedWith | Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Art and Technology Program. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Los Angeles County Museum of Art Modern Art Department. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Martin, Julie, 1938- | person |
| associatedWith | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008 | person |
| associatedWith | Snyder, Ellsworth. | person |
| associatedWith | University of Michigan. News and Information Services. | corporateBody |
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| Conceptual art |
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| Artists, American |
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Birth 1935
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