Keystone-shaped Mao badge
Keystone-shaped Mao badge

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Keystone-shaped Mao badge

Chinese
Modern period, 1912–present
2009-19.2

Information

Title
Keystone-shaped Mao badge
Medium
146 political badges of various shapes and sizes pinned on a T-shirt with a silkscreened image of Mao Zedong in pigtails by Zhang Hongtu
Dimensions
Image: 1.8 cm. (11/16 in.) h. x 1.6 cm. (5/8 in.) w. (widest, top)/0.9 cm. (3/8 in.) w. (narrowest, bottom); Overall: ca. 77 x ca. 90 cm. (30 5/16 x 35 7/16 in.).
Credit Line
Gift of Zhang Hongtu
Object Number
2009-19.2
Culture
Chinese
Period
modern Chinese styles and periods
Subject
revolutions

–2009 Collection of Zhang Hongtu (Woodside, NY), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2009.

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