id:			307584
accession number:	2018.18
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.18
updated:		2025-05-08 11:22:05.586000

East Village No.1, 1993–95. Rong Rong (Chinese, b. 1968). Gelatin silver print (printed 2005); image: 37.5 x 54.5 cm (14 3/4 x 21 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchased with funds from an anonymous donor 2018.18 © Rong Rong

title:				East Village No.1
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creation date:			1993–95
creation date earliest:		1993
creation date latest:		1995
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creditline:			Purchased with funds from an anonymous donor
copyright:			© Rong Rong

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culture:	China
technique:	gelatin silver print (printed 2005)
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - Misc. 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Rong Rong (Chinese, b. 1968)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 37.5 x 54.5 cm (14 3/4 x 21 7/16 in.)
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edition of the work: 	Edition 8/12

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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: “8/12”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “East Village. Beijing-No. 1 1994 Rong Rong (signed)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Rong Rong (the artist)
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	Karen Smith, Beijing, China
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	Larry Warsh, New York, NY
	date: 2005
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	Scott Howard, Hartsdale, NY
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: February 26, 2018
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Wu Hung, <em>Rong Rong’s East Village 1993-1998</em>, Introduction by Christopher W. Mao, New York: Chambers Fine Art, 2003
	page number: 	18, 61-62, 70-75
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	Wu Hung, <em>RongRong &amp;inri: Tui-Transfiguration,</em> China: Timezone 8, 2004
	page number: 	114-115, 117, 125
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	Wu Hung, <em>Transcience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century</em>, Chicago: The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art The University of Chicago, 1999
	page number: 	102, 107, 114-117
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	Albertini, Claudia. Avatars and Antiheroes: A Guide to Contemporary Chinese Artists. New York: Kodansha America, 2008.
	page number: 	88
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	Hooton, Keiko S., and Tony Godfrey. Contemporary Photography in Asia. Munich: Prestel, 2013.
	page number: 	122-123
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	Roberts, Claire. Photography and China. 2013.
	page number: 	160-161
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