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Feng Zhongtie (1917-99)

It’s a Fine View from this Side

1976

Woodblock print

68 x 53 cm

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Feng Zhongtie taught himself to make prints in the 1930s in Shanghai. He spent most of his career thereafter in his native Sichuan province. His work is immediately recognisable: meticulously detailed industrial, architectural and landscape features, all fitted within complex, balanced compositions. This print, made right at the end of the Cultural Revolution, carried the prescribed message of progress and economic order. In fact, the economy was then in a terrible condition, but new policy directions led to rapid recovery.

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Muban Educational Trust registration number fenzt002