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Long Live Our Great Leader Chairman Mao
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Description
This photograph was taken in Hangzhou by the well-known photographer Qian Sijie. Qian was assigned by the New China Agency to follow and document Mao’s tour to Hangzhou. His depiction of Mao in a bamboo grove suggests an association with the lives of traditional scholars in China’s past.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Shanghai province (place of publication)Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Hangzhou (subject)
- Date
- July 1968
- Artist/maker
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after Sijie Qian (born 1928) (photographer)New China Agency (established 1931) (designer)
- Associated people
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Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House (established 1952) (publisher)Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao) (1893 - 1976) (subject)
- Material and technique
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- 53 x 37.7 cm (height x width)
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- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2006.
- Accession no.
- EA2006.186
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s (I)
(from 8th Mar until 3rd Jul 2011)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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