ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the curatorial and interpretative methodologies employed in each example and seeks to determine whether it is possible to detect continuing trends or developing approaches to the interpretation and display of revolutionary art from China in museums and collecting institutions in Britain as they move through the second decade of the twenty-first century. It explores the most substantial of these exhibitions. Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s explored the Museum's collection of Cultural Revolution-era graphic art and design. The continued research undertaken at the University of Westminster, in conjunction with ongoing scholarship into the Cultural Revolution and new and multivocal narratives of that decade will produce deeper and more nuanced interpretations of the material that comprises the China Poster Collection. The first Cultural Revolution-era material to feature in Propaganda: Power and Persuasion did so in the 'Propaganda and Mass Media' section, the first theme of the exhibition.
