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Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s (I)

(from 8th Mar until 3rd Jul 2011)

Explore the bold and colourful imagery found on posters and other items from this revolutionary period.

Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s
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Figures with red banners

  • Description

    This is one of a set of four posters promoting the Cultural Revolution through slogans and rallies, produced a few months before Mao’s death and based on oil paintings in the 1967 Red guard exhibition ‘Long Live the Victory of Chairman Mao’s Revolutionary Line’. The slogan painted on the road in the foreground denounces Liu Shaoqi (1898–1969), Chairman of the People’s Republic from 1959–68. During the Cultural Revolution Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping were both denounced, and considered by Mao to be leading capitalist roadsters

  • Details

    Series
    Long Live the Proletariat Cultural Revolution’s Victory – Painting Collective No. 4
    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    AsiaChina Shanghai province (place of publication)
    Date
    May 1976
    Artist/maker
    Cultural Revolution Group Painting Collective (active c. May 1976) (designer)
    Associated people
    Shanghai People's Publishing House (established 1951) (publisher)
    Liu Shaoqi (ruled 1959 - 1968) (named on object)
    Material and technique
    lithograph
    Dimensions
    76.8 x 106 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2006.
    Accession no.
    EA2006.265

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