It took four years for this artist to build an entire city out of wood and metal, for a kinetic sculpture in which hundreds of toy cars rise up an escalator and speed down steel and plastic highways.
It took four years for this artist to build an entire city out of wood and metal, for a kinetic sculpture in which hundreds of toy cars rise up an escalator and speed down steel and plastic highways. This artist of Metropolis II smashed a clock when his performance piece of lying on a sheet of glass indefinitely was cut short because a museum guard brought him water. One work by this artist involved the revving of an engine during the two minutes in which a car was brought out of the garage. Wearing only underwear and with hands tied behind his back, this artist of Doomed crawled across broken glass for a piece called (*) Through the Night Softly. Earlier, this artist took a bullet in his arm after having a friend shoot him from 15 feet away with a rifle. This artist is most famous for a work in which he lay down on top of a white Volkswagen Beetle and nailed his palms to the car's roof. For 10 points, name this Californian performance artist who emulated the Crucifixion in his piece Trans-Fixed.
It took four years for this artist to build an entire city out of wood and metal, for a kinetic sculpture in which hundreds of toy cars rise up an escalator and speed down steel and plastic highways.
Chris Burden