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Exhibition
Picturing Power:
Art and Propaganda in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
31.1.-28.2.2001 Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg
Let New Socialist Culture Occupy Every Stage
Rang shehuizhuyi xin wenyi zhanling
yiqie wutai
Central Academy of Fine Arts
Revolutionary Alliance
1967, Beijing
Pictured here, Jiang Qing was Chairman
Mao’s third wife and one of the primary
instigators of the Cultural Revolution, through
her “revolution” in Peking opera.
Though her only official position was as a
deputy in the Cultural Revolution Small Group
(CRSG) she was actually its defacto leader. She
also became the leader of a new arts
organization. In time, Jiang Qing and the other
members of the CRSG came to be the primary
decision makers for the movement, replacing even
the Politburo of the Party Secretariat. In this
poster, Jiang Qing holds Mao’s book and
wears a PLA uniform. One of Mao’s initial
visions of the Cultural Revolution included the
PLA as a central unifying institution which was
not only involved in defending the nation, but
also led the people in educational and cultural
life.
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