About this artwork
Conceptual artist Hans–Peter Feldmann is known to trade seriousness for humor and the rarified for the mundane. In the 1960s he began taking photographs while also amassing images made by others; his presentations often mix the two groups indiscriminately. It would presumably be hard for the artist to know what music was playing in a car photographed by someone else, let alone to judge its quality: “good music,” like fine art, is for the beholder or listener to assess. This evocative set of pictures nevertheless uses the silent, static medium of photography to convey the easy pleasure of listening to music while driving.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Hans Peter Feldmann
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Title
- Pictures of Car Radios Taken while Good Music Was Playing (Ansichten von Autoradios, in denen gerade gute Musik spielt)
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1970–1990
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Medium
- Gelatin silver prints (4) and chromogenic prints (2)
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Inscriptions
- No markings recto; verso unchecked
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Credit Line
- The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund
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Reference Number
- 2010.317
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