Poetic Practical: The Unrealized Work of Chris Burden Patrick Radden Keefe unprecedented in scale and pointed

unprecedented in scale and pointed in subject

This table lamp is a three-dimensional collage composed of slightly enlarged replicas of three wild fly agaric mushrooms

Featuring streets painted from life and others created in the imagination

and philosopher Boris Groys

which incorporates a nude mannequin modeled after the artist

Poetic Practical: The Unrealized Work of Chris Burden Patrick Radden Keefe unprecedented in scale and pointedPoetic Practical is the first examination of Chris Burdens unrealized work, featuring sixty seven projects of varying scope and ambition that the artist was unable to complete during his lifetime. The book is divided into sections devoted to energy, systems, architecture, and power, and to Xanadu, a monumental unrealized installation of a cityscape. This extensively illustrated publication includes 435 images, incorporating never before seen archival