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Language English Pages 192 OCLC 59592918 Genre Non-fiction Subjects Art, History, Politics | 4.4/5 Goodreads Publication date October 1997 ISBN 978-0-86241-724-6 Originally published October 1997 Page count 192 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Canongate Books Ltd (United Kingdom)
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt (United States) Similar Red Star Over Russia: A, Ordinary citizens, Russian Revolutionary Posters: F, Experimental Music: Cage and, The Great Terror | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia is a 1997 book by David King about the censoring of photographs and fraudulent creation of "photographs" in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union through silent alteration via airbrushing and other techniques. It has an introduction by Stephen F. Cohen.
Michael Nyman created a companion album of the same title in 1999. The second disc of the two-disc album contains The Fall of Icarus, the score to an eponymous art installation by Peter Greenaway from 1986 which had previously been unreleased. The first disc, The Commissar Vanishes, is a version of The Fall of Icarus that has been defaced similarly to the photographs reproduced in King's book.
Track listing
Disc 1: The Commissar Vanishes
- Earth In Turmoil
- Jealousy And Revenge
- Look Out For An Enemy!
- Ordinary Citizens
- A Swift Exit
Disc: 2: The Fall of Icarus
- Disaster
- Wings
- Walls
- Water
- Utopia