Q: Amy Jane Barnes <ajb108leicester.ac.uk>
Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK
“I am currently researching material relating to the Cultural Revolution
(1966-1976) [...]”

Re:Q: Dr. Stephan v. d. Schulenburg
Curator East Asian and Islamic Art Department, Frankfurt:

Dear Amy,

until October 29th, 2006, there is an exhibition at our museum entitled
"The Souvenir. Memory in Objects from the Relic to the Memento". In this
show there is a section entitled "Souvenirs de l'Est" with a chapter on
Mao. This includes a number of porcelain plates, textile prints, etc. as
well as Mao memorial souvenirs from the 1990ies to the present day,
including the latest propaganda DVDs on Mao's life and a few more or less
satirical comments of contemporary Chinese artists on Mao and the
revolution kitsch. A larger part of the Cultural Revolution Period
exhibits was given to us as a loan by Barbara Mittler/Professor of
Sinology, Heidelberg University (she works on the trauma of the cultural
revolution in modern China). You may also contact Dr. Adele
Schlombs/Director of the Museum of East Asian Art Cologne who has some
interesting material from Cultural Revolution China. For our Frankfurt
exhibition there is a catalogue (30 euro), with some remarks I wrote on
the Mao issue, but all in German.

All the best
Stephan

Dr. Stephan v. d. Schulenburg
Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst
Curator East Asian and Islamic Art Department
Schaumainkai 17
D-60594 Frankfurt/Germany
phone ...49-(0)69-212-35518
fax ...49-(0)69-212-30703
stephan.schulenburgstadt-frankfurt.de