Often described through what its namesake Mao Zedong described as the “revolutionary struggle of the vast majority of people against the exploiting classes and their state structures,” Maoism retains a force whose magnitude we are only beginning to apprehend. Its impact on visual culture is especially profound: not only have depictions of Mao infiltrated nearly every corner of the globe, Maoist alignments course through many artworks made in an America that regards Maoism only through its worst excesses or as a blanket pejorative for any anti-capitalist position. Through, and beside, the works of Ed Bereal, Jim Dong, Nancy Hom, May Sun and Hung Liu, this talk considers Maoism as an angle of incidence through which to consider an un-American art history divorced from narratives of citizenship-based inclusion.
This event is presented as part of the Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) Series.
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