The Human Condition: Media Art from the Kramlich Collection, I

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Human Condition: Media Art from the Kramlich Collection, I
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Shannon Jackson
Foreword by Pamela Kramlich
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 305,Width 235
Category/GenreExhibition catalogues and specific collections
ISBN/Barcode 9780500025635
ClassificationsDewey:709.04
Audience
General
Illustrations 186 Illustrations, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 29 September 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The first in a series of four thematic volumes devoted to the world-class Kramlich Collection, the largest and most significant private collection of modern and contemporary media art. How does art respond to contemporary social questions? How, especially, does moving-image art address the themes that move us most? Drawn on works from the Kramlich Collection of time-based media art, The Human Condition comments on a range of complex political issues such as civil war, psychological isolation, human rights, gender relations, nuclear catastrophe and planetary degradation. Along the way, the featured artists innovate in their hybrid use of sound, image, performance, sculpture and screen technology. Since their first acquisition in 1987, pioneering collectors Pamela and Richard Kramlich have established one of the foremost international collections of media, video, film, slide, photography and performance art. In the first of four volumes devoted to the collection, The Human Condition presents signature works by internationally recognized artists such as Marina Abramovic, Doug Aitken, Dara Birnbaum, James Coleman, Pierre Huyghe, William Kentridge, Christian Marclay, Steve McQueen, Richard Mosse, Bruce Nauman, Shirin Neshat and Nam June Paik. The Human Condition also features newly commissioned essays from leading curators and scholars specializing in time-based media art, including Erika Balsom, Bill Brown, Adrienne Edwards, Chrissie Iles, Isaac Julien, Barbara London, Mark Nash, Catherine Wood and others. This book engages both newcomers and experts in the field with captivating imagery and rigorous reflection on some of the most influential contemporary art practices of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Author Biography

Shannon Jackson is the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor of Rhetoric, New Media and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.