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RUXIN (b. 1946) Yan'an, China "Come Back" 1971 woodcut, 20 3/8” x 24 1/4” Song’s woodcut depicts an older peasant walking arm-in-arm with a young intellectual youth. They are returning from a conference on Mao’s Colleted Works held for activists. Both wear buttons commemorating the event. Song illustrates the close relationship between the urban intellectual youth “sent down” to the countryside and the rural peasants of Shaanxi. The government sent youth to the countryside in the early 1960s to be rusticated and promote Mao’s socialist ideology. A second wave of “sent down” youth occurred in 1969 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. |
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