Chris Burden: When Robots Ruled the Air

Morris, Frances

ISBN 10: 1854372866 / ISBN 13: 9781854372864

Published by Tate, 3616

About this Item

Numerous illustrations. Essays by Frances Morris and Mary Horlock. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Tate Gallery, March 18 - July 18, 1999. ; Tight, clean and crisp. A gently read book in excellent condition. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not ex-library.

Seller Inventory # 33484-E

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chris Burden: When Robots Ruled the Air
• Publisher: Tate
• Publication Date: 3616
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854372866
• ISBN 13: 9781854372864
• Binding: softcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Used; Like New
• Weight: 16 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

At the end of the twentieth century ordinary people have little or no understanding of how the world we live in functions, how the food we eat is grown or how the objects we use are manufactured. For The Two-Minute Airplane Factory Burden has designed a factory-like assembly line which will construct model aeroplanes from paper, plastic and balsa-wood parts. The process, which is all on view, culminates in the launch of the planes, which fly up and circle round before descending to land on the gallery floor, to be collected and sold to visitors. Burden lays bare the principles of mass production in a way that is entertaining, ingenious and provocative.

About the Author

Frances Morris is Curator at the Tate Gallery of Modern Art.