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Published Date:
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:04:00 -0000
Blog Post Category:
Art
China
Cultural Revolution
Dorothea Lange
Hung Liu
Resident Alien
Tiananmen Square
Description:
<p>After having to destroy her family pictures during the Cultural Revolution in China, artist Hung Liu treasures old photographs all the more. In fact, they’re foundational to her work. She has described her portraits like a memorial site for people forgotten to history-- comfort women, farm workers, refugees.</p><p>As the Gallery launches a retrospective of her artwork, we trace Hung's life through some of the images she's collected and created, from her rendering of a resident alien card in which she renames herself 'Fortune Cookie,' to her painting commemorating the violent Tiananmen Square crackdown.</p><p><a href="https://npg.si.edu/podcasts/Un-forgetting%20History" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">See the images we discuss</a>:</p><p><a href="https://npg.si.edu/podcasts/Un-forgetting%20History" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://npg.si.edu/podcasts/Un-forgetting%20History</a></p>
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