October 2, 2012
The Power Broker
This blogpost is only incidentally about Chris Burden, it is actually a place to dog ear the audio book that I'm in the middle of listening to, Robert Caro's The Power Broker, the life of Robert Moses. Below the fold are all the videos from the American Experience: The World that Moses Built, parts 1-7 and a 30 minute documentary by a YouTube user by the name of onecent81 who says that this is was produced by him or her back in college. If that's true, it's well done for a student, the interviews with Caro and his wife are illuminating.
And Chris Burden? There are various competing characterizations about his work in the art world, but I like to shoot through them all and assert mine: that the thread that strings the necklace of his oeuvre is a theme about power.
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