Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assumed the role of a pioneer, a twentieth century Whitman, not only in the exploitation of untraditional themes but also in the development of a style that takes no cue from any predecessor--not even from Whitman. He takes enormous risks in his wriitng. He likes to quote Randolph Bourne: "The trouble with American culture is that the American artist is never allowed to make any mistakes. Poets today are afraid of gambling." He adds thoughtfully, "You have to get out on the edge and thread that very thin line between the predictable and the impossible, the ordinary...
...name of the show is "Dark," and it is the newest wrinkle in kinetic art. It is instant light sculpture, produced by a laser beam (in the case of the red lines) and a mercury-vapor lamp (for the white). "Dark" was dreamed up by Robert Whitman, 32, an artist whose reputation in Manhattan art circles rests on his theater happenings and "cinema sculptures," including a movie of a nude taking a shower. Whitman is fascinated by the fourth dimension, and, to work through his newest analysis of it, he called on the services of two Bell Telephone Laboratories engineers...
...middleman between Artist Whitman and his engineers was a one-year-old organization called EAT (Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc.), which operates under an $8,000 grant from New York State, and expects to provide artists with the scientific savvy to produce even more far-out art. Among EAT's first private backers, each of which has put up $1,000 to encourage the liaison between art and industry and will lend its technicians to the cause, are A.T. & T., IBM and the A.F.L.-C.I.O...
...Church voice" in favor of "plain American, which dogs and cats can read." He demanded plain speech and uttered it. Thus his heroes were homespun Wordsworth, unfashionable Kipling, Thomas Hardy, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost and, of course, the greatest American poet to speak for the common man-Walt Whitman...
...Stuart Whitman plays a U.S. marshal who patrols a vast, wild borderland somewhere between Kansas and Indian territory. Premiere...