Chris Burden

clipped from: www.nytimes.com
Why Is Contemporary Art Addicted to Violence?



Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery; photograph by Charles Hill

Chris Burdens Trans-fixed (1974).

THE ART OF CRUELTY

A Reckoning

By Maggie Nelson

288 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $24.95.

Courtesy of the collection of Christoph Schifferli, Zurich

(Chris Burden dies in 2015)

An invitation card for Gina Pane’s exhibition Azione Teorica, in 1977