id: 165627 accession number: 2007.59 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.59 updated: 2022-05-12 09:00:23.532000 Film Design, mid 1920s. Vassily Komardenkov (Russian, 1897-1973). Photomechanical reproduction, collage; image: 41.5 x 30.7 cm (16 5/16 x 12 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.59 title: Film Design title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: mid 1920s creation date earliest: 1923 creation date latest: 1928 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Russia, 20th century technique: photomechanical reproduction, collage department: Photography collection: PH - Russian 20th Century type: Mixed Media find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Vassily Komardenkov (Russian, 1897-1973) - artist --- measurements: Image: 41.5 x 30.7 cm (16 5/16 x 12 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in black ink on lower right corner of recto: "B.K." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * --- PROVENANCE Private collection, Vienna date: footnotes: citations: (Sotheby's.com - Leon Wilnitsky, Vienna) date: footnotes: citations: David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2007- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Collage and photomontage were popular techniques among the Russian avant-garde artists, who used them to promote radical cultural, political, and social agendas. This collage, its images taken from photographs and bits of printed materials, would have been reproduced in print and put up as a poster. New processes seemed appropriate for advertising a cinema, the Worker’s House, since film itself was a new medium, and Russian cinema had very innovative practitioners. Active in theater and set design at the state artistic and technical workshops, Komardenkov worked in film and the theater during the late 1920s and 1930s. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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: Mentioned: p. (74); reproduced: p. (76) url: --- IMAGES