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Chris Burden

Chris Burden gained international attention in the 1970s as an influential and often controversial figure in the West Coast body art, performance and Conceptual Art movements. Investigating the psychological experience of personal danger and physical risk, he used his own body as an art object in outrageous, sometimes shocking acts, aggressively confronting the artist/audience relationship and the artmaking process.

Biography

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Documentation of Selected Works 1971-74  1971-75, 34:38 min, color and b&w;, sound 
Big Wrench  1980, 15:12 min, color, mono 
The Big Wheel  1980, 29:02 min, color, sound 


Willoughby Sharp Videoviews Chris Burden

Chris Burden. Stockholm, Sweden: Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, 1999. In Swedish and English.

Chris Burden: A Twenty Year Survey. Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1988.

Chris Burden: When Robots Rule- The Two Minute Airplane Factory. London: Tate Gallery Publishing, 1999. Text by Frances Morris, Chris Burden, Nicholas Serota, Tom Horton.

Noever, Peter, ed. Chris Burden: Beyond The Limits. Vienna, Austria: Museum of Applied Arts, 1996. Text by Donald Huspit, Johannes Lothar Schroder.

Perrin, Frank. Chris Burden, Paris: Blocnotes, 1995.