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Indepth Arts News:
"A Tale of Two Cities:
Chris Burden"
2000-08-05 until 2001-02-11
Orange County Museum of Art
Newport Beach, CA,
USA United States of America
This installation consists of a miniature
reconstruction of two city-states at war using
over 5,000 war toys from the United States,
Japan, and Europe. The whole tableau is set
on a sand base, which acts simultaneously as
a metaphor for both the desert and the ocean.
Each city is protected by natural rock
formations. Behind each city is a large
collection of houseplants representing the
jungle. On view in the Installation Gallery of
the main museum building in Newport Beach.
IMAGE:
Chris Burden
A Tale of Two Cities, 1981
mixed media
Museum purchase with funds provided through prior gift of
Ben C. Deane
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