ID: 700008383 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008383	Record Type: Movable Work
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Götterdämmerung (photogravure (print); Tacita Dean (English draftsman, photographer, and filmmaker,...; 2001; Tate Modern ; P20254)

Note: Götterdämmerung depicts an empty and devastated battlefield. A cratered landscape stretches away to the grey horizon. In the foreground are the remains of a vehicle; fire has destroyed the wheels and the bodywork is flecked with rust. Dean’s notes describe her fictional movie as ‘a co-production ... a film about mutual destruction’. This ‘allegory of the First World War’ represents ‘the (shared) Russian Ending’. She describes the image as ‘godforsaken’, ‘a set of hellish bleakness’ with ‘no life’. Her directions include an injunction against sound effects; ‘silence’ being a more appropriate accompaniment to the desolation of the image. The work’s title, which translates as ‘twilight of the gods’, is a reference to the fourth and final part of the operatic epic Der Ring des Nibelungen (1848-1874) by Richard Wagner (1813-1883).

Titles:

Götterdämmerung (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,L,U,German-P,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: P20254

Credit Line: Presented by the artist 2002

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 cm; support: 54 x 69 cm

Cultures:

British (preferred)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	battlefield [300000835]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Built Complexes and Districts (hierarchy name), complexes (buildings and sites), <complexes by function>, sites (locations)) (AAT)

	automobile [300178739]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Transportation Vehicles (hierarchy name), vehicles (transportation), land vehicles, <land vehicles by form>, freewheeled vehicles, <freewheeled vehicles by form or function>, passenger vehicles) (AAT)

	World War I [901000143]
	.....((Global historical events, Named Events)) (ICON)

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

Inscriptions: Inscribed in white 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:
Götterdämmerung	........ [VP]
	........ Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 8 April 2014

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

....................... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 8 April 2014, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dean-gotterdammerung-p20254

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