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Li Yitai (b. 1944)

Lu Xun

1974

Woodblock print

46 x 47cm

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Here is Lu Xun in a characteristic pose, surrounded by his books in his office. The one legible book has Karl Marx on the cover, and the print has also been referred to as Marxism-Leninism is the Most Forthright Philosophy. Although a left-wing cultural leader, Lu Xun never joined the Communist Party. On the wall behind him is Change, a work in the Peasant War series (1902-8) by Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), whom Lu Xun greatly admired.

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