A catalogue of the Ashmolean’s collection of Chinese prints from 1950-2006 by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 2007).
This print depicts factory workers involved in the political campaign to ‘Criticize Lin Biao and Confucius’, one of a series of political movements in the Cultural Revolution. The information panel reads: ‘Reading and studying hard, criticizing Lin and Confucius in depth’. The style of this work reflects the 1970s mainstream influence of Soviet socialist realism. Wang Jieyin is now a professor at the College of Fine Arts of Shanghai University.
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 46 on p. 55, illus. p. 55
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