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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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Georges Hugnet Collages
opening date: 2003-11-13T05:00:00
Georges Hugnet Collages. Galerie 14/16 Verneuil, (November 13, 2003-January 31, 2004).
title: Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography
opening date: 2014-10-19T00:00:00
Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. 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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