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Exhibition
Picturing Power:
Art and Propaganda in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
31.1.-28.2.2001 Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg
Mao’s Rural Investigations in the Jinggang Mountains
Mao Zhuxi zai Jinggangshan nongcun
diaocha
Unknow artist
1971, Beijing
A picture of Mao as a young revolutionary
leader visiting a household of armed peasant
supporters of the Communists in the late 1920s,
in the Hunan-Jiangxi border area. Mao’s
experience in the region led him to rethink his
ideas about the role of the peasantry in the
revolution and to reject Comintern dogma. His
informal seated pose is a popular one used in
many portrayals of Mao and other leaders. This
pose shows the leaders having
“heart-to-heart” talks with ordinary
people, listening to their views before giving
them back reformulated into plans of
action--“from the masses, to the masses.
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