Victor Burgin
born 1941
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Biography
Victor Burgin (born 1941) is an artist and a 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, Andrè Breton, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. (European Graduate School Staff Page)
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Victor Burgin Lei-feng
1973–4
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
Film and audio
TateShots
Victor Burgin on Re-reading Images
'There's no point in making any more images' says artist and writer Victor Burgin
Features
Tate Etc
We are here: Photographing Britain
To coincide with Tate Britain’s photographic survey of Britain’s social history, Tate Etc. asked a selection of writers, curators and ...
Tate Papers
The Separateness of Things, Victor Burgin
In 1986 Victor Burgin made a series of photographic works based on Edward Hopper's painting Office at Night 1940 ...
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