Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s (II)
(from 11th Jul until 20th Nov 2011)Explore the bold and colourful imagery found on posters and other items from this revolutionary period.
Chairman Mao talking to farmers in a spring landscape
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Description
Zhou Hongcai is trained in woodblock printing and is known as a woodcut teacher. The poster depicts a group of educated young people who volunteered to go to the countryside to work as peasants, so the inscription reads ‘their ambition is in the countryside’. Behind the figures are the farm fields that they are going to work on, with their tools depicted in front of them.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Liaoning province (Shenyang) (place of creation)Asia › China › Liaoning province (Shenyang) (place of publication)
- Date
- designed March 1964 - printed December 1964
- Artist/maker
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Zhou Hongcai (born 1936) (artist)
- Associated people
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Liaoning Fine Arts Publishing House (established 1945) (publisher)Xinhua Bookstore (established 1937) (retailer)Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao) (1893 - 1976) (subject)
- Material and technique
- lithograph; calligraphy in ink
- Dimensions
- 76 x 53 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the E. H. North Bequest, 2006.
- Accession no.
- EA2006.298
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s (II)
(from 11th Jul until 20th Nov 2011)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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