ID: 700008382 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008382	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1 2

Beautiful Sheffield (photogravure (print); Tacita Dean (English draftsman, photographer, and filmmaker,...; 2001; Tate Modern ; P20264)

Note: The grainy black and white photograph that provided the source material for Beautiful Sheffield depicts a series of dark chimneys emitting black smoke into a grey and heavy sky. Soot obscures the roofs in the foreground, rendering the bottom half of the image almost completely black. Dean’s interest in narrative and the mechanisms of the film industry are also evident in her other work. Her installation Foley Artist, 1996 (Tate T07870) depicts cinematic sound engineers recording acoustic effects for a short soundtrack. The Roaring Forties: Seven Boards in Seven Days, 1997 (Tate T07613) is a series of chalkboard drawings that use the conventions of the filmic storyboard to suggest dramatic events taking place in tempestuous waters of the southern Atlantic Ocean. The Uncles, 2004 (collection of the artist) is a film about the artist’s own family connections to the first two Chief Executives of Ealing Studios, Basil Dean (1888-1978; Chief Executive 1931-1937) and Michael Balcon (1896-1977; Chief Executive 1937-1959). Dean’s detailed notes cover much of this print. She describes her fictional film as ‘a nostalgic film about the loss of pastoral England’. She details the effects that would be used to replicate the image in the postcard: ‘neon fx to exaggerate pollution ... smog backlit ... bucolic bliss crossed out’. She specifies that this final image would be accompanied by a soundtrack of a local choir singing Jerusalem, and reproduces in full the poem by William Blake (1757-1827) on which the hymn is based. The industrial horizon in the image is unfavourably compared to the rural landscape it superceded: ‘the Russian (pastoral) Ending ... we must weep for the past’.

Titles:

Beautiful Sheffield (preferred,C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

photogravure (print) [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]

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

Locations:

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

Repository Numbers: P20264

Display Materials: Photo-etching 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: image: 45 x 68.5 cm; support: 54 x 69 cm

Cultures:

British (preferred)

General Subject:

cityscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Sheffield [7019047]
	.....(South Yorkshire (county), England (country), United Kingdom (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	chimneys (architectural elements) [300003933]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, architectural elements, <heating and cooking architectural elements>, <chimneys and chimney components>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Inscribed overall, with notes by artist.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

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

Sources and Contributors:
Beautiful Sheffield	........ [VP]
	........ Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 8 April 2014

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-beautiful-sheffield-p20264