Tang Desheng
Country Doctors in a Farming Home Perform Outpatient Surgery, Chengzhang Commune

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Artist Tang Desheng(Chinese, born 1947)Chinese, born 1947

CultureChinese

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Country Doctors in a Farming Home Perform Outpatient Surgery, Chengzhang Commune
from the series Educated Youth, 1969-1979

Date1971, printed later

Place depictedChenzhang Commune, China

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 19 3/4 × 19 3/4 in. (50.2 × 50.2 cm)
Sheet: 25 1/4 × 24 1/8 in. (64.1 × 61.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of FotoFest International in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker on the occasion of her retirement

Object number2015.361

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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionTang Desheng’s series Educated Youth, 1969-1979 documents the government program that ordered millions of urban-educated youths to leave their homes and families to live and work with farmers and peasants in rural China.
ProvenanceThe artist; Fotofest International; given to MFAH, 2015.
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Stamped on verso lower right: © TANG DESHENG PHOTOGRAPHY

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