50 años de propaganda en China

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En la web Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages (enlace vía efimera.org) su autor ha recopilado un millar y medio de carteles propagandísticos chinos de los últimos 50 años.

So-called propaganda art has played a major supporting role in the many campaigns that were designed to mobilize the people, and throughout the People's Republic, the propaganda poster has been the favored vehicle through which art conveyed model behavior.[...]
Due to the enormous visual impact these posters have even today, they literally cry out to be exhibited. Moreover, in a society that has been changing as fundamentally as the Chinese since 1949, propaganda posters enable us to witness these historic and aesthetic changes from up close. The first 50 years of the People's Republic have left us with a body of materials that give an idea of how China saw itself, and its future, over the years. By showing a breathtaking glimpse of the way in which the country has developed over the past 50 years, these materials provide an illustrated history of modern China in a nutshell.


Un fantástico trabajo de recopilación y exposición, ordenado por categorías y autores e incluyendo extensos comentarios.

Hace unos pocos meses Taschen editó un voluminoso libro (otro en mi lista de compras pendientes) sobre el mismo tema, Chinese Propaganda Posters:

With his smooth, warm, red face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People’s Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s. These infamous posters were, in turn, central fixtures in Chinese homes, railway stations, schools, journals, magazines, and just about anywhere else where people were likely to see them. Chairman Mao, portrayed as a stoic superhero (a.k.a. the Great Teacher, the Great Leader, the Great Helmsman, the Supreme Commander), appeared in all kinds of situations (inspecting factories, smoking a cigarette with peasant workers, standing by the Yangzi River in a bathrobe, presiding over the bow of a ship, or floating over a sea of red flags), flanked by strong, healthy, ageless men and “masculinized” women and children wearing baggy, sexless, drab clothing.