Published on occasion of the New Museum’s focused survey of Burden’s work over four decades and charting themes, such as the Myth of the American West, the Institution, Gender Roles, and Model Making, Chris Burden: Extreme Measures (2013) provides new perspectives on Burden’s art and reexamines preoccupations such as extreme physical suffering, forgotten urban objects, and toy models, that span the artist’s long career. Forward by Lisa Phillips. Essays by Lisa Phillips, Thomas Crow, Guy Nordenson, Amelia Jones, Johanna Burton, Tom Marioni, Helene Winer, Matthew Day Jackson, Oscar Tuazon, and Jenny Moore.

Chris Burden: Extreme Measures.
Exhibition Catalogue
2013
248 pages; hardcover; illustrations (some color)
New York, New Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Skira Rizzoli
ISBN: 9780847841790 0847841790