The Image Of Intellectuals In Domestic Posters From The 1950s To The 1980s

This thesis intends to reconsider the role of "the intellectual"—which has always )een overlooked and never been consider as major character among any visual experience—and how it has been visualized within propaganda posters produced from the 1950s to the 1980s in the P.R.C.In order to look for a possible ’survival’ principle and visual pattern for such images, this thesis shed lights on the Party’s discourse of the various representations of "the intellectual", constructing the relationships between the different roles of visualizing "the intellectual" and its national discourse, "worker-peasant-solider", professional painter, amateur painter and so forth.