{"product_id":"thomas-ruff-tableaux-chinois-hardcover","title":"Thomas Ruff: Tableaux Chinois - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Ruff\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer), \u003cb\u003eDieter Roelstraete\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn ingenious photographic analysis of Chinese propaganda across two photo technologies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early 2000s, Thomas Ruff (born 1958) chanced across a coffee-table propaganda book on Mao Zedong and became interested in the visual rhetoric of Chinese Communism, eventually purchasing copies of \u003ci\u003eLa Chine\u003c\/i\u003e--the French iteration of a periodical that the Chinese Communist Party produced from the late 1950s through the 1970s as a means of demonstrating the advantages of Communism to European countries.\u003cbr\u003eRuff scanned images from \u003ci\u003eLa Chine\u003c\/i\u003e depicting cheerful soldiers, scenic views, ceremonial occasions and Mao himself, enlarging them to reveal the offset halftone dots, then duplicating the image and converting it into pixels; that image was then layered over the original scan, from which Ruff removed various areas. The final image therefore contains both analog halftone and digital pixel. As Susanne Holschbach observes, \"Ruff has visually merged the technological process of preparing photographs for their mass distribution from the two photographic eras on one pictorial plane.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 14.7 x 12.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42727295811647,"sku":"9783753301761","price":259.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c2bc08493ee2e1880ca5edc078a6c834.webp?v=1765114276","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/thomas-ruff-tableaux-chinois-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}