id:			165622
accession number:	2007.54
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.54
updated:		2023-01-11 17:11:29.719000

Angkor-Thom, c. 1930s. Georges Hugnet (French, 1906–1974). Photomechanical reproduction, collage; image: 13.1 x 10 cm (5 3/16 x 3 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.54 © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

title:				Angkor-Thom
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creation date:			c. 1930s
creation date earliest:		1930
creation date latest:		1939
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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culture:	France, 20th century
technique:	photomechanical reproduction, collage
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - French 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Georges Hugnet (French, 1906–1974)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 13.1 x 10 cm (5 3/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
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	inscription:	signed on recto
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Georges Hugnet Collages
	opening date:   2003-11-13T05:00:00
	<i>Georges Hugnet Collages</i>. Galerie 14/16 Verneuil, (November 13, 2003-January 31, 2004).

	title:		Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography
	opening date:   2014-10-19T00:00:00
	<i>Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Ferro Collection
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	(Florent Jeanniard, Paris)
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	David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
	date: 2007
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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A full-scale replica of the temple of Angkor Wat at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition of Paris sparked popular interest in architecture in Cambodia, which was then a French protectorate. Hugnet transformed a gallery announcement for a 1926 exhibition of drawings of Cambodian ruins into a satirical portrait by merely gluing four tiny bits of printed paper onto the image of the temple. The Surrealists staged two public protests against the Colonial Exposition; Hugnet’s collage may have been a more intimate form of commentary.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014.
	page number: 	cat. no. 83, p. 128
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	Hugnet, Georges, Timothy Baum, François Buot, and Sam Stourdzé. Georges Hugnet: collages. Paris: L. Scheer, 2003.
	page number: 	p.145
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