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Materials:

woodblock prints and a cover(i); oil-based ink on paper or ink and color on paper(ii)

Size Notes:

Largest; Smallest: 8.8 x 12 cm, Various sizes

Description:

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Condition:

mounted in seven mounts

Literature:

Among the interviews Rosinger conducted during his 1946 trip to China were two lengthy talks with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. Rosinger was gifted this group of woodcuts by Mao during this time. These images, celebrating the lives and capturing the struggles of the people, very much reflect the ideas Mao propagated in the 1942 Yan'an Forum on Art and , to create peasant-focused art and advance the cause of socialism through art. Many of the artists included this group such as Gu Yuan, Yan Han and Wo Zha, trained in the art of woodcut at the Lu Xun Academy of and Art. Established in 1938 in Yan'an by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, the Academy sought to teach artists regional and folk traditions and to endow them with the skills to advance socialism through art. Often bold and theatrical in composition, these prints chronicle the war against the Japanese, and convey the promise at the time of revolutionary change

Provenance:

Gifted to Lawrence K. Rosinger by Mao Zedong in Yan'an, 1946, thereafter by descent