Wang Guangyi
Great Criticism: Coca Cola
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ZAR 30 000 - 40 000
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ZAR 34 104
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About this Item
Chinese 1957-
Great Criticism: Coca Cola
signed and numbered 118/199 in pencil in the margin
colour lithograph
78,5 by 74,5cm excluding frame
Literature
Terry Smith (2011) Contemporary Art: World Currents, London: Laurence King Publishing. Pages 158-159 and illustrated in colour on page 2.
"Political Pop" was instituted by Wang Guangyi's Great Criticism series, in which propaganda posters form the Cultural Revolution are scattered with the logos and brand names of the international companies then entering China as it gave itself over to consumerism.
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