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Victor Burgin

born 1941

25 feet two hours 1969
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Biography

Victor Burgin (born 1941) is a British artist and writer. Burgin first came to attention as a conceptual artist in the late 1960s (Harrison & Wood, 1992; Walker, 2001) and at that time was most noted for being a political photographer of the left, who would fuse photographs and words in the same picture. He has worked with photography and film, calling painting "the anachronistic daubing of woven fabrics with coloured mud" (Burgin, 1976). His work is influenced by a variety of theorists and philosophers, most especially thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Henri Lefebvre, André Breton, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. (European Graduate School Staff Page)

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    Victor Burgin Room

    1970
  • Victor Burgin Lei-feng

    1973–4
  • Victor Burgin [no title]

    1991
  • Victor Burgin [no title]

    1991
  • Victor Burgin [no title]

    1991
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    1991
  • Victor Burgin [no title]

    1991
  • Victor Burgin [no title]

    1991
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