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| Author | David King |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Art,history,politics |
| Publisher | Canongate Books Ltd (United Kingdom) Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt (United States) |
Publication date | October 1997 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 978-0-86241-724-6 |
| OCLC | 59592918 |
The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia is a 1997 book byDavid King about thecensoring of photographs and fraudulent creation of "photographs" inJoseph Stalin'sSoviet Union through silent alteration via airbrushing and other techniques. It has an introduction byStephen F. Cohen.[1][2]
| Music for David King's Book The Commissar Vanishes The Fall of Icarus | ||||
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| Released | 8 November 1999 (United Kingdom) November 18, 1999 (United States) | |||
| Genre | Contemporary classical,minimalism | |||
| Label | Virgin Venture,EMI | |||
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Michael Nyman created a companion album of the same title in 1999. The second disc of the two-disc album containsThe Fall of Icarus, the score to an eponymousart installation byPeter Greenaway from1986 which had previously been unreleased. The first disc,The Commissar Vanishes, is a version ofThe Fall of Icarus that has been defaced similarly to the photographs reproduced in King's book.
Disc 1:The Commissar Vanishes
Disc: 2:The Fall of Icarus
A documentary was made about David King andThe Commissar Vanishes, calledFacing the Dead, by Gabrielle Pfeiffer. The film was commissioned byArte and broadcast internationally. It won the "Golden Gate Award" at theSan Francisco International Film Festival.
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