Thursday, February 28, 2013

The East Is Red

Shots of Chinese opry from the Cultural Revolution.
Red Detachment of Women, 1973.
© Zhang Yaxin/Courtesy see+ Gallery, Beijing,
and Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto.
Raid on the White Tiger Regiment, 1971.
© Zhang Yaxin/Courtesy see+ Gallery, Beijing,
and Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto.

5 comments:

BadTux said...

The only way that second photo could be more gay would be if it had a photo spread of Liberace in the background. Not that there's anything wrong with gay, of course. But somehow I think that was not what the creators of the glorious Cultural Revolution(tm) were aiming for...

- Badtux the Easily Amused Penguin

mikey said...

Hold on now. I'm not sure I approve of detaching women. It seems like a bad example of gender violence, probably something having to do with the patriarchy...

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

"The East Is Red" is the title of a Mekons song, but I'll be damned if I can find a playable version of it on You Tube.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Something is hidden, for sure.
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M. Bouffant said...

East Is Red Ed.:
You can't expect a buncha Limeys to have a more popular/retrievable version than Chairman Mao.

Sooner or later you have to cut the ladies off. It's for their own good, really.

And it's not "gay," it's (non-bourgeois) OPERA!!