Feldmann biography wikipedia

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Feldmann's approach to art-making was one of collecting, ordering, and re-presenting. Feldmann was born on 17 January He began working in , producing the first of the small handmade books that would become a signature part of his work. These modest books, simply entitled Bilde Picture or Bilder Pictures , would include one or more reproductions from a certain type—knees of women, shoes, chairs, film stars, etc.

In Feldmann decided to pull out of the art world and just make books and pictures for himself. Feldmann died on 24 May , at the age of Feldmann was a figure in the conceptual art movement and practitioner in the artist book and multiple formats. Feldmann's approach to art-making was one of collecting, ordering, and re-presenting amateur snapshots, print photographic reproductions, toys, and trivial works of art.

Feldmann reproduced and recontextualized our reading of them in books, postcards, posters or multiples. Feldmann made his first series of books between and His works from the early s include 70 snapshots depicting All the Clothes of a Woman and four Time Series projects including, for example, a row of 36 pictures of a ship moving along a river.