Chris Burden

Christopher Lee Chris Burden was an American artist working in performance, sculpture and installation art.

Christopher Lee Burden, the son of Robert Burden, an engineer, and Rhoda Burden, a biologist, was born in Boston in 1946 and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, France and Italy. When he was 12, he endured emergency surgery performed without anesthesia on his left foot after having been severely injured in a motorscooter crash on Elba during the long convalescence that followed, he became deeply interested in visual art, particularly in photography.

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