Victor Burgin

born 1941

Victor Burgin, ‘Lei-feng’ 1973–4 — Lei-feng 1973–4
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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, André Breton, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. (European Graduate School Staff Page)

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Artworks

Victor Burgin, ‘Lei-feng’ 1973–4

Victor Burgin Lei-feng

1973–4

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Victor Burgin, ‘[no title]’ 1991

Victor Burgin [no title]

1991

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Victor Burgin, ‘25 feet two hours’ 1969

Victor Burgin 25 feet two hours

1969

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Victor Burgin, ‘[no title]’ 1991

Victor Burgin [no title]

1991

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Victor Burgin Room

1970

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Victor Burgin, ‘[no title]’ 1991

Victor Burgin [no title]

1991

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Victor Burgin, ‘[no title]’ 1991

Victor Burgin [no title]

1991

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Victor Burgin, ‘[no title]’ 1991

Victor Burgin [no title]

1991

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Film and audio

Victor Burgin on Re-reading Images

'There's no point in making any more images' says artist and writer Victor Burgin

Features

Tom Wood Bottlenose Chelsea Reach (from Looking for Love) 1985

Tate Etc

We are here: Photographing Britain

David Campany , Nigel Shafran , Homer Sykes , Martin Parr , Anna Pavord , Viktor KolÃ¡r , Kathryn Hughes , Brett Rogers and Tessa Codrington

To coincide with Tate Britain’s photographic survey of Britain’s social history, Tate Etc. asked a selection of writers, curators and ...

Edward Hopper Office at Night 1940

Tate Papers

The Separateness of Things, Victor Burgin

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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