“The project focuses on memory and forgetting in China, and questions how and why contemporary media forms deploy revolutionary period images and nostalgia. It re-evaluates the Cultural Revolution through an analysis of visual communications in China in the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on posters, and eliciting perspectives from the memories of those represented in poster art, as well as professional image-makers contemporary both to that period and to the present era, the project has aimed to discover the continuing influence of the posters as a medium for public communication, as an art form and as a visual repository of personal recollection. ”
