Name
Chris
Lastname
Burden
Date of birth
1946
Date of death
2015
One of the first artists to experiment with the possibilities of the
body as a tool of new artistic expression, Chris Burden made a name for himself
in the early 1970s as the author of a series of performance actions in which
violence and exhibitionism are extreme vehicles for testing the boundaries
between art, death and life, and for investigating the respective moral
responsibilities of artist and public. [...]
