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Chris Burden : beyond the limits = jenseits der Grenzen / herausgegeben von Peter Noever = edited by Peter Noever.
Fine Arts Library N6537.B87 A4 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burden, Chris, 1946-2015.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Burden, Chris--Exhibitions.
- Burden, Chris.
- Exhibitions.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 228 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Beyond the limits
- Jenseits der Grenzen
- Place of Publication:
- Wien : MAK-Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst ; Ostfildern : Cantz ; New York, NY : DAP/Distributed Art Publishers [distributor], [1996]
- Language Note:
- In German and English.
- Summary:
- Burden has a love-hate relationship with the machine: Suspended from the ceiling of the gallery or presented in glorious isolation, the toy-like machine becomes an object of fear and worship, however ironically, a mysterious idol to be propitiated and venerated, even if it no longer works. Thus art makes the machine benign by turning into a strange toy. It masters the machine in a playful, Machiavellian act of homage to it. Burden implicitly sets the cunning of the artist against the engineer who masterminded the machine, implying that the artist can magically undo the human damage the latter unwittingly did with his machine.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, 28 Feb.-4 Aug. 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 3893228357
- OCLC:
- 34726153
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