The Stronghold of War

Attributed to Li Jingfang  (Chinese, born 1935)

Date:
1975
Culture:
China
Medium:
Etching with aquatint; color on paper
Dimensions:
Image: 19 11/16 x 31 1/8 in. (50 x 79.1 cm) Overall: 29 13/16 x 44 15/16 in. (75.7 x 114.2 cm)
Classification:
Prints
Credit Line:
On loan from the British Museum
  • Description

    This print from the politically charged series The Furnace Fire Is Even Redder shows workers, cadres, and technical staff studying the 1960 Angang Constitution (inscribed on the wall) and reading The People’s Daily.

    During the summer of 1975, when this print was made, Angang was a focus of the political strife between Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997), who avidly advocated modernization, and his “anti-rightist” opponents.

  • Provenance

    Purchased by the British Museum in 1996 from Li Jingfang, a Chinese printmaker through the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts (Printmaking Department).

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