Revolutionary Voices: Cultural Revolution Posters from the Crane House

May 14, 2008

Art, Downtown

From May 16-June 28 the Cressman Center will be presenting Revolutionary Voices: Cultural Revolution Posters from the Crane House.

The exhibition of 38 posters printed in the decade following the
beginning of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1966 is curated by Youn
Ju Yu as part of her masters thesis in critical and curatorial studies
at the University of Louisville.

Yu selected and grouped the posters into themes important to
communist ideology of the period. They also are sources for post-modern
Chinese art and provide a historical background for work of current
Chinese artists.

This show’s opening this Friday at 6:30PM will feature a gallery talk by UofL history professor Yuxin
Ma.

Ma lived through the Cultural Revolution and received two degrees
in English in China before completing her PhD in Chinese history at the
University of Minnesota in 2003. She came to UofL in 2006, and is
completing a book titled, “Constructing a Female Public Space: Chinese
Women’s Periodical Press, 1898-1937.

Cressman Center for Visual Art
100 E. Main St.
Louisville, KY

One Response to “Revolutionary Voices: Cultural Revolution Posters from the Crane House”

  1. Joel Says:

    thanks for the info, this looks really amazing.


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