Following is the Los Angeles Times obituary of Chris Burden by Christopher Knight, May 10, 2015. When he had himself shot in the arm for a performance piece at a Santa Ana gallery, Chris Burden... Read full biography
Following is the Los Angeles Times obituary of Chris Burden by Christopher Knight, May 10, 2015. When he had himself shot in the arm for a performance piece at a Santa Ana gallery, Chris Burden became fleetingly famous. But years later, when he created such outsized, imagination-charged works as... Read full biography
Following is the Los Angeles Times obituary of Chris Burden by Christopher Knight, May 10, 2015. When he had himself shot in the arm for a performance piece at a Santa Ana gallery, Chris Burden became fleetingly famous. But years later, when he created such outsized, imagination-charged works as Urban Light, the ranks of vintage lampposts tightly arrayed outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, he left a longer-lasting legacy. Burden, the protean Conceptual artist who rose from doing... Read full biography
Following is the Los Angeles Times obituary of Chris Burden by Christopher Knight, May 10, 2015. When he had himself shot in the arm for a performance piece at a Santa Ana gallery, Chris Burden became fleetingly famous. But years later, when he created such outsized, imagination-charged works as Urban Light, the ranks of vintage lampposts tightly arrayed outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, he left a longer-lasting legacy. Burden, the protean Conceptual artist who rose from doing controversial performances in the 1970s to become one of the most compelling and widely admired sculptors of his generation, died Sunday at his home in Topanga Canyon. He was 69. Paul Schimmel, a close friend of the artist and the former chief curator at... Read full biography
Following is the Los Angeles Times obituary of Chris Burden by Christopher Knight, May 10, 2015. When he had himself shot in the arm for a performance piece at a Santa Ana gallery, Chris Burden became fleetingly famous. But years later, when he created such outsized, imagination-charged works as Urban Light, the ranks of vintage lampposts tightly arrayed outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, he left a longer-lasting legacy. Burden, the protean Conceptual artist who rose from doing controversial performances in the 1970s to become one of the most compelling and widely admired sculptors of his generation, died Sunday at his home in Topanga Canyon. He was 69. Paul Schimmel, a close friend of the artist and the former chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art who had organized Burden’s first retrospective exhibition in 1988, said the cause was... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (37)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Art Metropole: The Top 100 (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Scott, Kitty et al
137 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Vancouver Collects (Vancouver Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Thom, Ian et al
159 pages (color)
The Artist's Body
2000
Warr, Tracey (ed)
0 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press
1996
Brown, Kathan
287 pages (color)
True Colors The Real Life of the Art World
1996
Haden-Guest, Anthony
344 pages (color)
Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s
1996
Sandler, Irving
636 pages (color)
Videotexts
1995
Gale, Peggy
154 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting (etc)
1993
Gardner, James
227 pages
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
1993
Kostelanetz, Richard
246 pages
Contemporary Art 1965-1990
1992
Kurtz, Bruce D
256 pages (color)
West Coast Duchamp
1991
Clearwater, Bonnie (others)
128 pages
Power:Its Myths and Mores in American Art 1961-1991 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Day, Holliday T
159 pages (color)
Breakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990
1991
Wexner Center, Ohio State U
310 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Performance Anthology: Source Book of California Performance Art
1989
Tong, Darlene et al
531 pages
The New Subjectivism Art in the 1980s
1988
Kuspit, Donald
578 pages
Commited to Print (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Wye, Deborah
120 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
New Art
1984
Freeman, Phyllis
207 pages (color)
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980
1982
Johnson, Ellen H (editor)
274 pages
Drawings by Contemporary Sculptors (Surrey Art Gallery)
1982
Young, Jane
32 pages
The Sense of the Self From Self Portrait to Autobiography (Exhibition catalog)