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Maker(s):Lau, Pok Chi
Culture:Born in Hong Kong, active in United States, (1950- )
Title:The Chinese word ’Communism 共’ / Retired bachelor farmer (born in Singapore)
Date Made:2006 and 1981 image capture; 2012 composite print
Type:Photograph
Materials:Epson 9880 print on Museo Silver paper
Measurements:Sheet: 17 3/8 in x 40 1/8 in; 44.1 cm x 101.9 cm; Image: 16 1/16 in x 19 7/16 in; 40.8 cm x 49.4 cm
Accession Number:  MH 2012.3
Credit Line:Purchase with the Sylvia Ch'en Shangraw (Class of 1958) Chinese Art Memorial Fund
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
A horizontal dyptych. The left side captures the first character "gong" of the Chinese word "Communism," as appears in white on peeling layers of plastiers and paint of red. The right side is a very thin old man standing at a door, with only pants on and a cigarette in his proper right hand. Behind the old man is a portrait of Chaiman Mao on the back wall.

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