The Technological Hand / Markus Kramer

The Technological Hand examines the influence of technological strategies of image finding on contemporary art. The outlined connections to the history of photography, painting, and Conceptual Art create a new model for understanding pictorial culture in the beginning 21st century. Markus Kramer is the author of diverse essays on this topic. After Thomas Ruff. Modernism (2011) and Photographic Objects (2012), The Technological Hand is his third book being published by Kehrer Verlag.

The texts are complemented by selected works by John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Alice Channer, Jan Dibbets, Wade Guyton, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Thomas Ruff, Seth Price, Kelley Walker, and Christopher Wool.