Memory Palace
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
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Pages: Good
What would the future look like if humanity lost the ability to use digital technology — and had to rebuild civilisation's knowledge through image and illustration alone? Memory Palace, published by the Victoria and Albert Museum, presents a visionary exhibition catalogue born from a landmark show held at the V&A in 2013, bringing together a remarkable collective of illustrators and artists to reimagine a post-digital world through the ancient art of visual storytelling. Conceived around a fictional narrative, the project commissioned over twenty artists — including Åbäke, Oded Ezer, Francesco Franchi, and Stuart Kolakovic — to create a sequence of striking works that chart the fall and re-emergence of human knowledge, each piece functioning as a kind of illuminated manuscript for the modern age. Curated by Laurie Britton Newell and Leysa Salazar, Memory Palace sits at a compelling intersection of speculative fiction, graphic art, and cultural history, drawing on the classical mnemonic tradition to interrogate how societies encode, transmit, and ultimately preserve what they know. The result is a richly layered anthology that doubles as both an art object and a meditation on memory, loss, and human resilience — one that leaves the reader wondering just how fragile the architecture of civilisation truly is.
Author: Heri Kunaru
Format: Hardback
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
What would the future look like if humanity lost the ability to use digital technology — and had to rebuild civilisation's knowledge through image and illustration alone? Memory Palace, published by the Victoria and Albert Museum, presents a visionary exhibition catalogue born from a landmark show held at the V&A in 2013, bringing together a remarkable collective of illustrators and artists to reimagine a post-digital world through the ancient art of visual storytelling. Conceived around a fictional narrative, the project commissioned over twenty artists — including Åbäke, Oded Ezer, Francesco Franchi, and Stuart Kolakovic — to create a sequence of striking works that chart the fall and re-emergence of human knowledge, each piece functioning as a kind of illuminated manuscript for the modern age. Curated by Laurie Britton Newell and Leysa Salazar, Memory Palace sits at a compelling intersection of speculative fiction, graphic art, and cultural history, drawing on the classical mnemonic tradition to interrogate how societies encode, transmit, and ultimately preserve what they know. The result is a richly layered anthology that doubles as both an art object and a meditation on memory, loss, and human resilience — one that leaves the reader wondering just how fragile the architecture of civilisation truly is.