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The Spirit of Bai Tiu-En...

Poster
ca. 1966-76 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Shanghai (made)

Through the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) Mao Zedong aimed to reinvigorate Communism in China and eliminate traditional urban class differences. 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

Categories
Prints
Propaganda
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleThe Spirit of Bai Tiu-En... (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Paper
Ink
Brief description
"The Spirit of Bai Tiu-En..." Chinese Cultural Revolution poster. China, n.d.
Physical description
Red background. Male figure [Bai Tiu-En] with hand on hip, seen from waist up. Four figures sketchily defined in black, bent over a surgery table in the rear ground. Pale yellow Chinese text across six lines along upper margin.
Dimensions
  • Height: 76.3cm
  • Width: 53cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • "The Spirit of Bai Tiu-En is that he is extremely responsible and extremely enthusiastic about the Party, so every Party member should learn from him." / Mao Tse Tung
  • Selected from an exhibition "The Revolutionary Root of Chairman Mao" Printed in Shanghai.
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
Subjects depicted
Propaganda
Communism
Ideology
Politics
Zedong, Mao
Chinese Cultural Revolution
Place depicted
China
Summary
Through the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) Mao Zedong aimed to reinvigorate Communism in China and eliminate traditional urban class differences. 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.
Other number
LS.1469 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.691-2004

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Record createdSeptember 27, 2004
Record URL
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