Binding: Hardcover
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 Mc Queen 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.
Title: The Human Condition Media Art From The Kramlich Collection I
Brand: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Barcode: 9780500025635
Pages: 192 Pages, 186 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 12/6/2022
Category: Exhibition Catalogues & Specific Collections