Czapajew / Chapayev

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Czapajew / Chapayev

Entry/Object ID

2006.122

Description

Polish film poster for Czapajew. On the right side of the composition, a man wearing a hat leans against a horizontal post. The man is printed in black ink, with the red background serving as the highlights. The name of the film is printed in white bold font at the top of the poster. Cinema.

Artwork Details

Medium

Offset lithograph

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul University, gift of Martin and Patricia Rosenberg

Made/Created

Artist

Zamecznik, Stanislaw

Date made

circa 1940

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Poland

Continent

Europe

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

Top: “WZNOWIENIE WIELKIEGO FILMU PRODUKCJI RADZIECKIEJ CZAPAJEW,” BLC: (unintelligible symbol), Left side: (text rising vertically)

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Poster

Nomenclature Class

Advertising Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

posters, information artifacts, information forms (objects)

Hierarchy Name

Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)

Facet

Objects Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Movie posters, Film posters

Legacy Lexicon

Class

WORKS ON PAPER

Dimensions

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

22-1/2 in

Length

33 in