id:			376242
accession number:	2020.76
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.76
updated:		2022-01-04 18:12:49.384000

Mankind (An Oriental, a Caucasian, and a Black weighted according to current population statistics), 1983-85, printed 1999. Nancy Burson (American, b. 1948). Gelatin silver print; image: 22.8 x 19.4 cm (9 x 7 5/8 in.); framed: 48.4 x 44.5 cm (19 1/16 x 17 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust 2020.76

title:				Mankind (An Oriental, a Caucasian, and a Black weighted according to current population statistics)
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creation date:			1983-85, printed 1999
creation date earliest:		1983
creation date latest:		1985
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creditline:			The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust
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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Nancy Burson (American, b. 1948)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 22.8 x 19.4 cm (9 x 7 5/8 in.); Framed: 48.4 x 44.5 cm (19 1/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
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edition of the work: 	edition 14/15

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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Written in black ink on recto: "Mankind © 1983-5 Nancy Burson (signed) 14/15"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Studio of the Artist
	date: 1999
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	(Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA)
	date: 2000
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	John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
	date: 2000-2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 2, 2020
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fun fact: 
Burson used pictures from a 19th-century book of racial stereotypes and weighted their visibility in the resulting composite to reflect world population statistics in the mid-1980s.

digital description: 
Although the image, if done with 2020 population statistics, might not look terribly different, the concept of race has changed in the intervening decades. Racial identity is often now discussed as a social rather than biological construct and is no longer considered a valid division by most geneticists.

wall description: 

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Burson, Nancy, Richard Carling, and David Kramlich. Composites: Computer-Generated Portraits. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1986.
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	Burson, Nancy, Michael L. Sand, Lynn Gumpert, Terrie Sultan, and Christopher C. French. Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson. Santa Fe, N.M.: Twin Palms, 2002.
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