A Tale of Two Cities: general view

First created in 1981, "A Tale of Two Cities/Historia de dos ciudades," was re-installed for inSITE94 at the Children's Museum, San Diego. As a room-sized miniature reconstruction of two cities at war with each other, "A Tale of Two Cities" used over 5,000 toys collected by the artist from the United States, Japan, and Europe. Set in an environment of plants, sand, and rocks, the two cities, one much larger and more powerful than the other, faced off in conflict.

• 1994

• Burden, Chris (American sculptor, Performance artist, and installation artist,1946-2015)

• InSITE94

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 02, Item 054)

The New Children's Museum (American museum)

toys (recreational artifacts); sand; gravel; rock; driftwood; plants; camouflage

• InSITE94

• Mexican-American border region

• Installations (visual works)
• Models (representations)
• Sculpture (visual work)

• Border art
• Cities
• Landscapes (representations)
• Violence
• War

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715335

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Sculpture and Installations

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Unknown (US)

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2020-10-26