The giant portrait of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square -- he of the Mona ... by the party to be top secret,” said Wu Hung, an art historian at the University of Chicago.

Nixon had gone over to China so Chairman Mao's image was everywhere ... It was one of a series of 10 large scale portraits Warhol made of Mao in 1972. Art experts consider "Mao" to be the best ...

The National Museum of China's exhibition Mao Zedong, the Great Master marks the late chairman's proficiency of calligraphy and poetry, displaying 120 copies of Mao's calligraphic works of his own ...

The present lot is a rare-to-market, complete set of 10 screenprints by Andy Warhol of Chairman Mao. Executed in 1972, each print is stamp-authenticated, sequentially numbered and accompanied by the ...

China's former leader Chairman Mao Zedong has had various incarnations: guerrilla fighter, political leader, mass murderer and pop-art icon. Now, 32 years after his death, in perhaps the most ...

A print of Andy Warhol's famous portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof art museum in Berlin. (Wikimedia Commons) Today was the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s ...

A year before, Chairman Mao had unleashed the fury of the Cultural ... by banning all forms of “bourgeois” and “feudal” art – to watch a Western film or perform a traditional Chinese ...

Boston-based auction house R.R. Auction has sold an English language, first edition ‘Little Red Book’ of quotations by Chairman Mao, for $250,000. The 312-page text was signed by the Chinese ...

During China’s Cultural Revolution traditional artists were condemned as counter-revolutionaries and imprisoned. In their place the government attempted to create a new visual culture: one that ...