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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Potemkin village
  name:
    name part: Lehner, Judith M.
    name part: 1982-
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lehtinen, Linde B.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Moser, Walter
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ger
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 304 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
  abstract: According to legend, the phrase Potemkin village can be traced back to the Russian field marshal Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin. In 1787, the minion of Catherine the Great purportedly had entire villages erected as painted façades along the paths of her travels to the recently conquered Crimean territory in an effort to veil the true, run-down face of the region. Following Closed Cities (Kehrer 2012), Gregor Sailer's new project once again presents actual architectural manifestations driven by political, military and economic motives, combat training centers in the United States and Europe, faithful replicas of European cities in China and vehicle test cities in Sweden. And finally, a classical Potemkin village in Russia, where, on the occasion of a visit by Vladimir Putin to Suzdal on the Golden Ring and a triple summit in the city of Ufa, whole streets were masked with adhesive foil, wallpaper and tarpaulins in an effort to provide the abandoned buildings with a feigned sense of activity. Sailer's pictures give the viewer access to the world of fakes, copies and stage sets and call these at times absurd aberrations of our contemporary society into question.
  note: [texts, Judith M. Lehner, Linde B. Lehtinen, Walter Moser].
  note: Text in English and German.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sailer, Gregor
    genre: Catalogs
  subject:
    topic: Landscape photography
    genre: Catalogs
  subject:
    topic: Architecture and photography
    genre: Catalogs
  subject:
    topic: Facades
    genre: Catalogs
  classification: TR660.5 .S25 2017
  classification: 770
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Photographs. Selections
    name:
      name part: Sailer, Gregor.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Gregor Sailer
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Gregor Sailer. German
  identifier: 9783868288278
  identifier: 3868288279
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 170922
    record change date: 20180718084538.0
    record identifier: in00003954060