Robert Whitman

Robert Whitman: Playback

• Text by David Joselit, George Baker, Ben Portis and Lynne Cooke

• ISBN: 9780944521465

• 206 pages

• 2003

• Buy at Diabooks.org

"Due to the unusual ephemeral nature of most of Whitman's oeuvre, relatively little of it is easily accessible to us today; Playback has therefore involved the artist extensively in restoring and reconstructing works. The exhibition and the book are the product of a six-year effort, some of it nearly archaeological, to rehabilitate aged film and outdated equipment into an exhibitable form as the artist intended it." This book comes with a DVD including The American Moon, Flower, Prune Flat, and an interview with the artist as well as commentary on the films.