Illustration:
ill. 2.11 d (set: 2.11)
Date:
2007
Genre:
postcard, photograph, film
Material:
scan, paper, colour; original source: photograph, colour
Source:
Haigang 2007: Haigang 海港 (On the docks). Beijing: Zhongguo dianying, 2007:187.
Keywords:
On the Docks, model work, hero, red flag, female, gesture, Cultural Revolution

On the Docks (Haigang 海港)

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.