Video: New life of old books from Julia Feld (Julia Feld)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Books die in different ways. Some turn into dust, some are burned at the stake, and some turn into completely new works of art. The latter, for example, include those old books, which the American artist took on Julia Feldmaking of them incredible volumetric applications.
Julia Feld's work can probably be compared to taxidermy. So taxidermists stuff the skins of dead animals with filler, so she takes old, useless books, cleans them of entrails and gives them a new, purely visual meaning.
Of course, it is customary for us to treat books very carefully. But there are some books that no one will definitely read. It is these volumes that Julia Feld literally for a penny, that is, cents, buys up at sales and in second-hand stores, and then gives them a new life.
She makes from old books something like museum stands, in which, under glass, are the remains of bygone civilizations, already extinct cultures. But only Julia Feld, using scissors, a knife, a ruler and glue, gut books and creates an incredible kind of applique inside them.
Moreover, as a subject for these applications, she takes the subject of the book itself, and sometimes even retells its contents with the help of visual means. And here all sorts of pictures, graphs, maps, formulas and other illustrations from these folios come in just by the way.
And to all the claims of indignant book lovers, Julia Feld replies that no one would ever have opened these books. And, thanks to her creativity, a huge number of people will see their insides.
And, of course, it is worth noting that Julia Feld does not work with those books that are of any second-hand value. She wields scissors and glue only over really unnecessary books. In this regard, it would be interesting to see what kind of applications the artist would have made on the basis of the numerous voluminous volumes of the classics of Marxism-Leninism, lying around at home almost all of us.
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