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Poster - Chairman Mao inspecting Fushun
  • Chairman Mao inspecting Fushun
    Liaoning Province Propaganda Hall for the Ideas of Mao Zedong
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Chairman Mao inspecting Fushun

  • Object:

    Poster

  • Place of origin:

    China (made)

  • Date:

    1972 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Liaoning Province Propaganda Hall for the Ideas of Mao Zedong (designers)
    Liaoning People's Publishing House (publishers)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Colour offset lithograph

  • Credit Line:

    Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko

  • Museum number:

    E.1831-2004

  • Gallery location:

    Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3G, shelf DR29

  • Image in copyright

Mao Zedong's personal aim behind the Cultural Revolution was to bolster his own position within the Communist Party. Posters helped to propagate the cult and here he is seen literally in the fore. Chairman Mao badges offered a means for people to 'own' the cult and demonstrate their allegiance. The Fushun mines were historically significant and this poster probably refers to an actual visit made by Mao in order to demonstrate his camaraderie with his people.

Physical description

Chairman Mao standing on a mountaintop proudly surveying Chinese productivity (a view of the mines below). He is accompanied by three males and one female. Two members of this entourage wear miners' lamps. In the left distance, a crowd of smiling youths approaches.

Place of Origin

China (made)

Date

1972 (made)

Artist/maker

Liaoning Province Propaganda Hall for the Ideas of Mao Zedong (designers)
Liaoning People's Publishing House (publishers)

Materials and Techniques

Colour offset lithograph

Marks and inscriptions

Chairman Mao on a tour of inspection in Fushun

Dimensions

Height: 53.1 cm, Width: 77.1 cm

Descriptive line

Anonymous Cultural Revolution Poster. China, ca. 1970.

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

'Chinese Propaganda Posters from the Collection of Michael Wolf' Taschen. 2003.
page 34, lower image

Exhibition History

Propaganda Posters from the Schreyer Collection (Henry Cole Wing, Level 3 05/12/2002-23/03/2003)

Production Note

[sold for 0.12 Yuan]

Materials

Paper; Ink

Techniques

Colour offset lithography

Subjects depicted

Propaganda; Politics; Communism; Politician; Ideology; China; Crowd; Nationalism; Zedong, Mao; Mines; Production; Producer cooperatives

Categories

Prints; Propaganda; Posters

Collection code

PDP

Qr_O102642
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