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Taking class struggle as the key, counter-attack the rightist wind to overturn verdicts: selected fine-arts big-character posters by the workers of Yangquan (以阶级斗争为纲,回击右倾翻案风)

This poster is part of the campaign against Deng Xiaoping (as yet unnamed) in the spring of 1976. Created by the Yangquan workers’ amateur arts group, comprising amateur artists from agricultural machinery, mining, steel, and railroad industries, and from fine arts and propaganda divisions of workers’ cultural palaces in Yangquan. Yangquan, in Shanxi Province, is an industrial centre that nurtures amateur artists, and was active in the Cultural Revolution. Sixteen individual posters are included in the display, followed by a "publisher's statement". Price: 25 fen

In Collection:
Contributor Subject Publisher Language Keyword Date created Resource type Rights statement Extent
  • 1 poster ; 76.5 x 105.5 cm
Alternative title
  • Taking class struggle as the key, counter-attack the rightist wind to overturn verdicts: selected fine-arts big-character posters by the workers of Yangquan
  • 以阶级斗争为纲,回击右倾翻案风:阳泉工人美术大字报选
  • Yi jieji douzheng wei gang, huiji youqing fan'anfeng: Yangquan gongren meishu dazibao xuan
Edition
  • First edition of 200,000.
Geographic Coverage Coordinates
  • 36, 109
Collection
  • Chinese Propaganda Poster Project
Provenance
  • From the collection of Richard King.
Provider Genre Date digitized
  • June 7, 2011
Technical note
  • Scanned using the Betterlight TTI, edited by KMercer and CDeWolfe, metadata provided by R.King and KMercer. Migration metadata by KD.
Rights
  • These images are provided for teaching and research use only.
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