| The Commissar Vanishes The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia |
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| Author(s) | David King |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | art, history |
| Publisher | Canongate Books Ltd (UK) Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt (USA) |
| Publication date | October 1997 |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 978-0862417246 |
| OCLC Number | 59592918 |
| Music for David King's Book The Commissar Vanishes The Fall of Icarus |
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| Studio album by Michael Nyman | ||||
| Released | November 8, 1999 (UK) November 18, 1999 (USA) |
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| Genre | Contemporary classical, minimalism | |||
| Label | Virgin Venture, EMI | |||
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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 in 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.
Disc 1: The Commissar Vanishes
Disc: 2: The Fall of Icarus