de Middel Cristina Cristina De Middel - Party: Quotations fr - Lot 75

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de Middel Cristina Cristina De Middel - Party: Quotations fr - Lot 75
de Middel Cristina Cristina De Middel - Party: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetong - 2014. 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 Bookstore-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 by censoring and hiding the parts of the text that are no longer in force and highlighting some other redesigned sentences that, for me, form a more accurate portrait of the People's Republic of China in the twenty-first century." RM
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