CHINESE PAINTINGS - Thomas Ruff
In the early 2000s, Thomas Ruff stumbled across a propaganda book about Mao Zedong. As a result, he became interested in the visual rhetoric of Chinese Communism, eventually purchasing copies of a periodical that the Chinese Communist Party produced from the late 1950s to the 1970s. In this series, Thomas Ruff reworks images from this work, depicting joyful soldiers, panoramic views, ceremonies and more. Ruff digitizes them and converts them into pixels himself, offering an ingenious photographic analysis of Chinese propaganda.
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter und Franz König, 2022
Signed copy, 31.5 cm x 37.5 cm , 85 pages
ISBN 978 3 7533 0176 1
In the early 2000s, Thomas Ruff stumbled across a propaganda book about Mao Zedong. As a result, he became interested in the visual rhetoric of Chinese Communism, eventually purchasing copies of a periodical that the Chinese Communist Party produced from the late 1950s to the 1970s. In this series, Thomas Ruff reworks images from this work, depicting joyful soldiers, panoramic views, ceremonies and more. Ruff digitizes them and converts them into pixels himself, offering an ingenious photographic analysis of Chinese propaganda.
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter und Franz König, 2022
Signed copy, 31.5 cm x 37.5 cm , 85 pages
ISBN 978 3 7533 0176 1
In the early 2000s, Thomas Ruff stumbled across a propaganda book about Mao Zedong. As a result, he became interested in the visual rhetoric of Chinese Communism, eventually purchasing copies of a periodical that the Chinese Communist Party produced from the late 1950s to the 1970s. In this series, Thomas Ruff reworks images from this work, depicting joyful soldiers, panoramic views, ceremonies and more. Ruff digitizes them and converts them into pixels himself, offering an ingenious photographic analysis of Chinese propaganda.
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter und Franz König, 2022
Signed copy, 31.5 cm x 37.5 cm , 85 pages
ISBN 978 3 7533 0176 1
