Chairman Mao inspecting a Guangdong Village
Poster
ca.1970 (made)
ca.1970 (made)
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Through the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) Mao Zedong aimed to reinvigorate Communism in China and eliminate traditional urban class differences. The smiling, productive Guangdong villagers are depicted in a flattering manner which elevates peasant workers to integral participants in Mao's new society. A 'saturation campaign' of visual propaganda was a primary vehicle for disseminating the new ideologies. Themes and form were rigidly prescribed and the idealised figures were often copied from source books.
Object details
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| Title | Chairman Mao inspecting a Guangdong Village (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph |
| Brief description | Poster image of Chairman Mao with Guangdong villagers. Beijing, China n.d. |
| Physical description | Chairman Mao walking along dirt road with fields and productive field workers on either side. Walking with but slightly behind the Chinese leader is a large gathering of the barefoot Guangdong villagers, some carrying farming tools, all smiling and robust. Mao wears a white button-front long sleeve shirt, grey trouser help up by a brown belt. He carries a woven hat in his right hand. A villager also carries a straw hat, inscribed '1958' in red. Text below. |
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| 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 |
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| Summary | Through the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) Mao Zedong aimed to reinvigorate Communism in China and eliminate traditional urban class differences. The smiling, productive Guangdong villagers are depicted in a flattering manner which elevates peasant workers to integral participants in Mao's new society. A 'saturation campaign' of visual propaganda was a primary vehicle for disseminating the new ideologies. Themes and form were rigidly prescribed and the idealised figures were often copied from source books. |
| Associated object | E.692-2004 (Duplicate) |
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| Other number | LS.1482 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
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| Accession number | E.693-2004 |
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| Record created | September 27, 2004 |
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