纽约举办《毛主席语录》50周年展

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William Grimes, 纽约举办《毛主席语录》50周年展. 纽约时报中文网, Nov 19, 2014
cn.tmagazine.com/art/20141119/t19mao/

, which is translated from

William Grimes, Mandated to Be a Best Seller. New York Times, Nov 14, 2014 (in the Weekend Arts section)
(exhibition review on Quotations of Chairman Mao; 50th anniversary exhibition 1964-2014 from the collection of Justin G Schiller. Grolier Club, Nov 13, 2014-Jan 15, 2015)

Note:
(a)
(i) The home page has a brief introduction of the Club.
www.grolierclub.org
(ii) The “second floor gallery” is where this particular exhibition is.
www.grolierclub.org/Default.aspx ... id=169183&vnf=1

(b) Mr Schiller “became intrigued by the Cultural Revolution and Mao worship, epitomized in the ‘Quotations’ and its myriad spinoffs: propaganda posters, toys, decorated mirrors, carafes, tea trays and lapel pins, all represented in the Grolier exhibition.”
(i) The German and Jewish surnames Schuler (of which Schiller is a variant) meant “a scholar or a student training to be a priest, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schuol(e) ‘school.’“
(ii) carafe
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carafe

* its etymology: “French, from Italian caraffa, from Arabic gharrāfa”
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carafe

(c) “Mr Schiller owns a “Quotations” LP that came with an exercise book, so that listeners could get a Party-endorsed workout while enjoying the music.”

LP record
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_record
(d) In print, there are four photos, which share the legend: “Mao’s opus led to spinoffs: clockwise from above, a 1970s clock; a propaganda poster; a doll and its American victim [explained in the text]; and a [glass] case of parodies and related works.
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