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Cultural Revolution badge commemorating Bing wang shan
Chinese
Modern period, 1912–present
2009-19.16
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Didactics
Small, horizontally-oriented rectangular white enamel band at bottom (between 1/3 and 1⁄2 of total, with inscription “并罔山” . In upper register an overlapping series of pointed mountain peaks rises up and breaks out of the rectangular frame of the badge at the upper right; a horizontally swirling white enamel cloud with gold linear detail pushes out beyond leftmost and shortest mountain (distant); all, set agaist a dark ruby ground with a single 5-pointed gold star at the upper left. Edge = plain. Back: pin/clasp = small, centered. Beneath the clasp = inscription: 参现并罔山纪念.
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Title
Cultural Revolution badge commemorating Bing wang shan
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
overall: ca. 77 x ca. 90 cm. (30 5/16 x 35 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Zhang Hongtu
Object Number
2009-19.16
Culture
Subject
–2009 Collection of Zhang Hongtu (Woodside, NY), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2009.
