In the thousands of propaganda posters produced in China between the birth of the People’s Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s, the beaming face of Chairman Mao Zedong watches over a surreal utopia.
Chi Peng, “Sprinting Forward 4” (2004), C-print, 55 x 81 x 2 1/2 in. (framed) (Collection of Andrew and Heather Rayburn, all images courtesy the Orange County Museum of Art) LOS ANGELES — Jin Shan was ...
With these posters, art is political. This week, a new exhibit debuted at Manhattan’s Poster House, America’s first museum dedicated exclusively to poster art. In The Sleeping Giant: Posters & The ...
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I discovered China's wild propaganda secrets
China's “space baby” propaganda posters merge Cold War space race imagery with traditional Chinese mythology and Mao-era political messaging. Emerging after the Soviet Union’s Sputnik launch in 1957, ...
CHINA’S GRANDEST music academy this month unveiled a full-length, Western-style opera about Zhou Enlai. The puzzle is that it took this long. Opera is arguably the only art form big enough to capture ...
People march carrying a large poster of Chairman Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution in China in 1968. (Hulton Archive ) The professor was under surveillance. Cameras taped her every lecture.
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