Illustration:
ill. 2.11 a (set: 2.11)
Genre:
postcard, photograph
Material:
scan, paper, colour; original source: postcard, photograph, colour
Source:
Postcard Collection Reprint, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2003., Heidelberg catalogue entry
Keywords:
Red, color symbolisms, multi media works, good character, bad character, Red is the East, The White-haired girl, model works, Tan Dun

The White-haired Girl (Baimaonü 白毛女)

Tan Dun’s “Red Forecast” ends with idyllic sounds in the woodwinds, and with a stage “washed in red.” Tan Dun thus repeats exactly the typical final apotheosis as found in the model works of the Cultural Revolution: they invariably end with spheric sounds, a tableau of heroes and a stage all washed in red as can be seen here. (See also DACHS Continous Revolution).