ID: 700008381 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008381	Record Type: Movable Work

Russian Ending, The (photogravures (prints); Tacita Dean (English draftsman, photographer, and filmmaker,...; 2001; Tate Modern ; not available)

Note: Portfolio of twenty black and white photogravures with etching collectively entitled The Russian Ending. The portfolio was printed by Niels Borch Jensen, Copenhagen and published by Peter Blum Editions, New York in an edition of thirty-five; Tate’s copy is the fifth of ten artist’s proofs. Each image in the portfolio is derived from a postcard collected by the artist in her visits to European flea markets. Most of the images depict accidents and disasters, both man-made and natural. Superimposed on each image are white handwritten notes in the style of film directions with instructions for lighting, sound and camera movements, suggesting that the each picture is the working note for a film. The title of the series is taken from a convention in the early years of the Danish film industry when each film was produced in two versions, one with a happy ending for the American market, the other with a tragic ending for Russian audiences. Dean’s interventions encourage viewers to formulate narratives leading up to the tragic denouements in the prints, engaging and implicating the audience in the creative process.

Titles:

Russian Ending, The (preferred,C,U,undetermined,U,U)

The Russian Ending (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: portfolio

Work Types:

photogravures (prints) [300154382] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, photomechanical prints)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: 2001

Creator Display:

Tacita Dean (English draftsman, photographer, and filmmaker, born 1965) [preferred,VP]

publisher Peter Blum Editions (American publisher, contemporary) [500450226]

printer Niels Borch Jensen, Copenhagen (Danish printer, contemporary) [500450225]

artist Dean, Tacita (English draftsman, photographer, and filmmaker, born 1965) [500123797]

Locations:

Current: Term Not Found (ULAN Candidate) (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: not available

Credit Line: presented by the artist 2002

Display Materials: photo-etchings on paper

	photogravure (process) [300053207]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, photomechanical processes, intaglio photomechanical processes)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: 20 black and white photogravures with etching

Cultures:

British (preferred)

General Subject:

various subjects (preferred)

history and legend

Specific Subjects:

	Rússia [7002435]
	.....() (TGN)

Copyright: © Tacita Dean, courtesy Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris

State: 5th of 10 artist's proofs

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works

............... Russian Ending, The

Sources and Contributors:
Russian Ending, The	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
The Russian Ending	........ [VP]
	........ Tate Gallery [online] (1999-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 8 April 2014

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 25 February 2018, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dean-gotterdammerung-p20254