ABSTRACT
In order to explore the development of Burden's practice as it unfolded over four decades from 1965 onwards, this chapter describes the comprehensive survey publications Chris Burden: A Twenty Year Survey, Chris Burden, Beyond the Limits, and Chris Burden, and the documentary Burden. However, he recalled that several of his friends were drafted, In this heightened political atmosphere, an idea began to gather ground that it was socially irresponsible for art only to address matters relating to art. The emphasis on embodied experience in their work was a key underpinning of the genre of performance art, which developed as an attempt to reinstate the connection between individual and society, and between artistic activity and social reality. Burden recalled: In 1978, a new chapter began in Burden's professional life when he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship - and also became the first artist chosen to work with gallerist Larry Gagosian.
