ID: 700009326 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009326	Record Type: Conceptual

Russian Ending, The (portfolio (group of works); Tacita Dean (English draftsman, photographer, and filmmaker,...; 2001)

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. Within her series The Russian Ending, 2001, Tacita Dean documented historical and tragical occurrences through postcards. Single sheets added into a sequence obtain filmic quality. Dean wants the single parts of The Russian Ending to be understood as final images of imaginary Russian movies. At the beginning of the last century the last sequences of European movies were shot twice, while the ‘Happy End’ was replaced by a ‘Tragic End’, to be successful within the Russian audience. Therefore, the cycle is a rethinking of the intercultural similarities and differences between the east and west. It shows collective strokes of fate that are repeated throughout cultural or national boundaries. Moreover, it visualizes how the occurrences fall to be forgotten as well.

Titles:

Russian Ending, The (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

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

Catalog Level: series

Work Types:

portfolio (group of works) [300179434] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Object Groupings and Systems (hierarchy name), object groupings, <object groupings by specific context>, visual works groupings)

photogravures (prints) [300154382]

..... (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]

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

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

Locations:

Not Applicable:

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)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Conceptual Works

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

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]
	..... Daimler Art Collection [online] (2000-)
	..... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-)