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Title: "Reason for the Neutron Bomb" by Chris Burden
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Musgrove, Dean
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1988
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption reads, "Some 50,000 nickels with match heads glued on top comprise Chris Burden's 'The Reason for the Neutron Bomb,' part of his retrospective at the Newport Beach Art Museum through June 12." Photograph dated May 8, 1988.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078102
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b041_f1_i16
CARL0000079128
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24450
Subject: Burden, Chris,--1946-2015--Exhibitions
Newport Harbor Art Museum
Art--California--Newport Beach--Exhibitions
Installations (Art)--California--Newport Beach--Exhibitions
Art museums--California--Newport Beach
Newport Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Burden, Chris,1946-2015

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