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Spanish-born, London-based photographer and conceptual artist Cristina de Middel (born 1975) follows the colossal success of her 2012 volume The Afronauts--a self-publishing phenomenon that was voted best photo book of that year by Photo-eye--with Party, a portrait of present-day China modeled on Mao Tsetong's Red Book. De Middel uses the structure of Mao's book (as well as its iconic design) to create a photo-narrative interspersed with adapted quotations from Mao. As she describes it: "I decided to adapt this historic political statement by censoring and hiding the parts of the text that are no longer in force and highlighting some other redesigned sentences that, for me, form a more accurate portrait of the People's Republic of China in the twenty-first century." Party is published in a limited edition of 750 copies and is certain to quickly become a photo-book classic.
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- PublisherRM/Archive of Modern Conflict
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 8415118678
- ISBN 13 9788415118671
- BindingFlexibound
- Edition number1
- Number of pages200
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Party Quotations from Chairman Mao [Quitonasto Form Chanmair Mao Tungest]
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RM / Archive of Modern Conflict
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ISBN 10: 8415118678
ISBN 13: 9788415118671
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. STL photo (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. London, England: RM/Archive Of Modern Conflict, 2013. Softcover. First Edition. First Printing. 306 pages with 78 photographic images by Cristina de Middel. Book Condition: New/Fine. Party. Quotations from Chairman Mao TseTung is a photobook built upon the skeleton of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. It was conceived by photographer Cristina de Middel after her first trip to China, which took place in 2012 and for which she set the intention of reacting with the camera to whatever caught her attention, without any attempt to analyse or explain. De Middel returned from China with an extensive series of photographs which at first she found hard to classify and edit, since their only common denominator was her own astonishment. But she soon realised that their very resistance to classification was the key to their ability to show us what China is today.She decided to adapt Chairman Mao TseTung's Little Red Book (which in the 1960s was the single most visible icon in mainland China, even more visible than the image of Chairman Mao himself) as a framework for the photographs to create a narrative for modern times. Censoring or hiding parts of the original text and highlighting and altering other parts, she presents a portrait of the People's Republic of China in the 21st century. Seller Inventory # 244
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