[lbo-talk] Re: pull quote of the month

Simon Huxtable jetfromgladiators at yahoo.com
Thu May 6 08:27:41 PDT 2004


For those of you in London (which is probably not so many of you), the Photographers' Gallery has two exhibitions running, one of Zhensheng's photos, and the other of Hou Bo and Xu Xiaobing's photographs of Mao. It runs until May 30.

More details here: http://www.photonet.org.uk/sections.pl5?section=programme

Very much worth seeing and well curated.

Simon


> Reading up on the GPCR saw note of Mao quotes
> about dog farts.
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/observer/story/0,14467,1193997,00.html
> ....If ever you doubted the brutality of this
> period, then Zhensheng's
> photographs are the ocular proof. Over and over,
> they record that peculiar
> relationship between infantilism and cruelty.
> Buddhist monks, subjugated,
> forced to display a banner that reads: 'To Hell with
> the Buddhist
> scriptures, they are full of dog farts.' Red Guards
> performing the 'It Is
> Right to Rebel' dance routine to an audience of
> uniform peaked caps.
>
> Great coffee table book of photos on the Great
> Proletarian Cultural
> Revolution,
> Red-Color News Soldier
> by Li Zhensheng (Author)
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
>
/0714843083/qid=1083766702/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-5827339-
>
> 2569466?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

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