Never forget Mao: the monumental as radical universal or: the making of a “Maoist modern”
In socialist countries like China, monuments of political icons are ubiquitous and universal, and artists cannot avoid engaging with the monumental style. Yet, how to deal with the socialist hero once he dies and falls from grace? Stalin’s statues are dismantled in a series of dramatic performances,...
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| Language: | English |
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2024
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Art and modernism in socialist China
Year: 2024, Pages: 219-239 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003450535-17 |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003450535-17 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003450535-17/never-forget-mao-barbara-mittler?context=ubx&refId=2aa09a2a-6a97-4253-a08b-351e39227d8a |
| Author Notes: | Barbara Mittler |
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