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Exhibition
Picturing Power:
Art and Propaganda in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
31.1.-28.2.2001 Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg
Smash the Gang of Four
Da “sirenbang”
Wang Baoguang
1978, Yangliuqing
Children play at smashing the Gang of Four,
Wang Hongwen, Zhang Chuqian, Jiang Qing, and Yao
Wen. After Mao’s death in 1976, these four
radical leaders of the Cultural Revolution were
arrested and tried for almost every possible
political crime. During the late 1970s, posters
and publication attacked the Gang of Four with a
vengeance. Here, the use of the New Year style
imbues the poster with symbols of celebration
and renewal, just as the four, revolutionary
children are poised to replace the four corrupt
politicians. This poster was published in
Yangliuqing, an area near Tianjin famous for its
classical paintings.
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