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Date
1995
Format
Other
Publisher
China Today (今日中国）
City
Beijing
Materials
Print on paper
Dimensions
52 x 75 cm
Description
This is the front page from the 1996 wall calendar, published by China Today, Beijing. The photograph in the center shows a frontal image of the artist holding a panda in his arms, while Zhang Qianqian, a singer, actress, model, painter and writer, stands in profile and looks at them. Zhang is wearing a white pajama. She has short hair and some makeup on. The artist is in a blue woman pajamas, exposing his upper-torso, with shoulder-length hair. An ambiguity in gender is suggested through this image. These figures are framed by an oval wreath, made of pink roses and leaves. The work may reveal a mock attitude on kitsch in the 1990s. (Yifan Shang ’25)
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