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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Sun May 7, 2017, 08:43 PM May 2017

Shot and crucified: The extreme art of Chris Burden

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2S05hw48t0tpcnS03yqvrfp/shot-and-crucified-the-extreme-art-of-chris-burden

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Shot and crucified: The extreme art of Chris Burden (Original Post) shenmue May 2017 OP

I remember very well seeing some of Burden's "commercials"... GReedDiamond May 2017 #1

GReedDiamond

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1. I remember very well seeing some of Burden's "commercials"...

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Sun May 7, 2017, 09:34 PM

May 2017

...on tv in Los Angeles around 1976 or so.

One was him crawling through broken glass, but the glass looked like shimmering stars or lights so you didn't immediately recognize that it was broken glass; while another was a scrolling list of famous artists' names - the last name on the list being "Chris Burden."

Have also seen several of his sculptural objects at LACMA.

Good stuff.

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