Poetic Practical: The Unrealized Work of Chris Burden

$120.00 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Poetic Practical is the first examination of Chris Burden’s unrealized work, featuring sixty-seven projects of varying scope and ambition that the artist was unable to complete during his lifetime. The book is divided into sections devoted to energy, systems, architecture, and power, and to Xanadu, a monumental unrealized installation of a cityscape. This extensively illustrated publication includes 435 images, incorporating never-before-seen archival materials and newly commissioned photography of the…