This article was mainly about the personality and life of Chris Burden. Something that this revealed is that in his famous performance Shoot, he thought that getting shot was the only way to be declared an official artist and that he would be taken seriously. Chris Burden looked up to a many different people but one of his major role models was Duchamp. He was also most known for his performances rather than hs works of art but he performed in order to see how people would react to it. In his lifetime, Chris Burden had been electrocuted, nearly drowned, shot, and nailed to the back of a car. This article also talks about his family and how he grew up. Burden was born to an engineer father and mother who mastered biology. He went to college
