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
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creation date:			mid 1920s
creation date earliest:		1923
creation date latest:		1928
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Russia, 20th century
technique:	photomechanical reproduction, collage
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - Russian 20th Century
type:		Mixed Media
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CREATORS

* Vassily Komardenkov (Russian, 1897-1973)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 41.5 x 30.7 cm (16 5/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in black ink on lower right corner of recto: "B.K."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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

	Private collection, Vienna
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	(Sotheby's.com - Leon Wilnitsky, Vienna)
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	David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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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.
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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: 	Mentioned: p. (74); reproduced: p. (76)
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IMAGES