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dc.coverage.spatialCreation location: Venice (Los Angeles, California, USA)en_US
dc.coverage.temporalCreation date: April 13, 1973en_US
dc.creatorBurden, Chrisen_US
dc.dateApril 13, 1973en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-09-12T21:49:25Z
dc.date.available2006-09-12T21:49:25Z
dc.date.issued1973en_US
dc.identifier020018en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/2453en_US
dc.description"At 6 p.m. three invited spectators came to my studio. The room was fifteen feet by twenty-five feet and well it by natural light. Wearing no clothes, I entered the space from a small room at the back. Two assistants lifted onto each shoulder one end of six foot sheets of plate glass. The sheets sloped onto the floor at right angles from my body. The assistants poured gasoline down the sheets of glass. Stepping back, they threw matches to ignite the gasoline. After a few seconds I jumped up, sending the burning glass crashing to the floor. I walked into the back room."en_US
dc.descriptionfull viewen_US
dc.format.extentlength of each sheet of glass: 1.83 m (6 feet)en_US
dc.format.mediumgasolineen_US
dc.format.mediumglass (material)en_US
dc.relation.ispartof118903en_US
dc.subjectFiresen_US
dc.subjectPerformance arten_US
dc.subjectIcarus (Greek mythology)en_US
dc.subjectMythology, Greeken_US
dc.subjectMale nude in arten_US
dc.titleIcarusen_US
dc.typeImageen_US
dc.rights.accessAll rights reserveden_US
vra.techniqueburningen_US
vra.techniqueperformingen_US
vra.worktypePerformance arten_US
dc.contributor.displayperformance artist: Chris Burden (American, 1946-)en_US


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