DUO, DUO / LANDSBERGER, STEFAN R. / MIN, ANCHEE
With his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the Peoples Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s.
Chairman Mao, portrayed as a stoic superhero (aka the Great Teacher, the Great Leader, the Great Helmsman, the Supreme Commander), appeared in all kinds of situations (inspecting factories, smoking a cigarette with peasant workers, standing by the Yangzi River in a bathrobe, presiding over the bow of a ship, or floating over a sea of red flags), flanked by strong, healthy, ageless men and masculinized women and children wearing baggy, sexless, drab clothing. The goal of each poster was to show the Chinese people what sort of behavior was considered morally correct and how great the future of Communist China would be if everyone followed the same path toward utopia by uniting together.
This book brings together a selection of colorful propaganda artworks and cultural artifacts of Chinese propaganda posters, many of which are now extremely rare.
Con su rostro colorado, cálido y apacible, que irradiaba luz, el presidente Mao Tse-tung era una figura omnipresente en los pósteres de la propaganda china impresos entre el nacimiento de la República Popular, en 1949, y principios de la década de 1980.
El presidente Mao, apodado "el Gran Maestro", "el Gran Líder", "el Gran Timonel" o "el Comandante Supremo", aparecía retratado como héroe histórico en todo tipo de situaciones (visitando fábricas, fumándose un cigarrillo con unos campesinos, junto al río Yangtsé en albornoz, a la proa de un barco o flotando entre un mar de banderas rojas), flanqueado por hombres de edad indefinida, fuertes y saludables, y por mujeres y niños masculinizados vestidos con ropas holgadas, grises y asexuadas. El objetivo de tal imaginería era mostrar al pueblo chino el comportamiento que se consideraba moralmente correcto y lo brillante que sería el futuro de la China comunista si todos unidos seguían el mismo camino hacia la utopía.
Este libro reúne una selección de obras de arte y objetos culturales de la propaganda china a todo color procedentes, muchos de ellos sumamente raros.
