Thomas Ruff: Tableaux Chinois

by Dieter Roelstraete

An ingenious photographic analysis of Chinese propaganda across two photo technologies

In the early 2000s, Thomas Ruff (born 1958) chanced across a coffee-table propaganda book on Mao Zedong and became interested in the visual rhetoric of Chinese Communism, eventually purchasing copies of La Chine--the French iteration of a periodical that the Chinese Communist Party produced from the late 1950s through the 1970s as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3753301760
• ISBN13: 9783753301761
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 4.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 12.4" x 14.7"