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.
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