id:			171081
accession number:	2013.53.1
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.53.1
updated:		2023-04-14 11:30:06.117000

The Russian Ending: Vesuvio, 2001. Tacita Dean (British, b. 1965), Peter Blum Edition. Photogravure; sheet: 58.4 x 83.8 cm (23 x 33 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2013.53.1

title:				The Russian Ending: Vesuvio
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creation date:			2001
creation date earliest:		2001
creation date latest:		2001
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	England, 21st century
technique:	photogravure
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Photogravure
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Tacita Dean (British, b. 1965)  - artist

* Peter Blum Edition  - published by

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measurements: Sheet: 58.4 x 83.8 cm (23 x 33 in.)
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edition of the work: 	4 of 35

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Photographs in Ink
	opening date:   2022-11-20T05:00:00
	<i>Photographs in Ink</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* "The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (Feb. 24 - July 7, 2013).

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PROVENANCE

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The title of Tacita Dean’s portfolio comes from an early Danish cinema practice of producing films with alternate endings: a happy resolution would be created for the American audience and a disastrous one for the Russian market. The artist sourced the photographs from postcards she collected of natural or human-caused disasters. In the prints, she annotated the images with fictional filmmaker directions. While each print seems to represent a single movie still, Dean invites viewers to imagine the preceding narrative—as though it were part of a film—and decipher her handwritten clues to arrive at its ending.
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