Chris Burden
b. 1946
Chris Burden first gained international attention in the 1970s as an influential and often controversial figure in the West Coast body art, performance and Conceptual Art movements. Once ironically termed the "Evel Knieval of contemporary art," Conceptual Art, Burden allowed himself to be shot, crucified, almost drowned and electrocuted. . In these extensions of his conceptual works, Burden addresses the artist's relationship to an industrialized and technological society. Burden was born in 1946. He received a B.A. from Pomona College, Claremont, California, and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine. A major retrospective of his work,
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