The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 24, 2024

Angkor-Thom

Angkor-Thom

c. 1930s
(French, 1906–1974)
France, 20th century
photomechanical reproduction, collage
Image: 13.1 x 10 cm (5 3/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.54
© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Location: not on view

Description

A full-scale replica of the temple of Angkor Wat at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition of Paris sparked popular interest in architecture in Cambodia, which was then a French protectorate. Hugnet transformed a gallery announcement for a 1926 exhibition of drawings of Cambodian ruins into a satirical portrait by merely gluing four tiny bits of printed paper onto the image of the temple. The Surrealists staged two public protests against the Colonial Exposition; Hugnet’s collage may have been a more intimate form of commentary.
  • Ferro Collection
    (Florent Jeanniard, Paris)
    2007
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. cat. no. 83, p. 128
    Hugnet, Georges, Timothy Baum, François Buot, and Sam Stourdzé. Georges Hugnet: collages. Paris: L. Scheer, 2003. p.145
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
    Georges Hugnet Collages. Galerie 14/16 Verneuil, (November 13, 2003-January 31, 2004).
  • {{cite web|title=Angkor-Thom|url=false|author=Georges Hugnet|year=c. 1930s|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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