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Robert Whitman
Sounds For 4 Cinema Pieces

Single US 1968 on Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago label
Spoken Word (Field Recording, Promotional)

Record was the invitation card for Robert Whitman exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago April 12-May 19, 1968. It come in white enveloppe printed with the address of the museum and the mention : HI-FI SOUNDSHEET DO NOT BEND. "To play fold front cover underneath back cover and place entire booklet on phonograph." Sounds For 4 Cinema Pieces, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, April 12 - May 19, 1968 [FIRST EDITION] Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1968. 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. Still in the unsent printed mailing envelope. 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.

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