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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...visitor at the show soon realizes that the Chinese Revolution has also obliterated any notion of socialist realism, as practiced?however fitfully???in Russia. There are no sweating boatmen by the rivers. Not even a dirty shirt in view. Everything is swept, ordered, prosperous. The happy people of Huhsien county are the last Arcadians. Socialism, as it were, equals Ovid plus electricity. Their sacks of grain bulge like the bellies of good-luck gods. Every bulb of garlic in their fields is the size of a baby's head. Each melon and gourd displays, in its massive and purposeful rotundity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Arcadians of Huhsien County | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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