Word: agitprop
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...other hand, there's Rent Collection Courtyard. It's a replica of more than 100 life-size clay statues that were originally crafted in Shanghai in 1965 as pure Maoist agitprop, a tableau of peasants being abused by a greedy landlord and his thugs. In 1999 Cai had a team of artisans reproduce the ensemble for the Venice Biennale. Set in a new context, as they are again at the Guggenheim, the figures took on a new meaning. They became artifacts of a bygone communist order and the lost power of its coercive spectacles...
...tattooed, dreadlock-sporting members of radical agitprop collective Taring Padi despise materialism, and spend their days producing banners and posters urging social reform in their native Indonesia. It would therefore be a delicious irony if their work became collectable - clucked over in galleries by affluent, Shiraz-sipping dilettantes. But stranger things have happened in the world of art, and the group - with around 10 artists at its core - now finds itself enjoying a modicum of celebrity...
...wore her usual uniform and body language: agitprop T-shirt, one elbow defiantly jutting out from the hip. She looked angry, so I went over to talk...
...This week's summit had all the ingredients of compelling agitprop: martial pageantry, a red-carpet welcome for Roh, flower-waving crowds, and even a cameo by the reclusive Dear Leader, who, despite looking unsteady and in poor health, nevertheless emerged to play host. But stagecraft doesn't equal statecraft. For now, the dream of a North Korean perestroika remains just that. Roh may have taken a symbolic step toward reunification - but the road ahead is long and far from smooth...
...Broadway spectacle, but rather a small one-woman drama playing at the less-than-noteworthy Minetta Lane Theatre. But what the play, “My Name is Rachel Corrie,” lacks in excitement, it more than makes up for in naïve, political agitprop...