Thomas Ruff: Tableaux ChinoisIn the early 2000s, Thomas Ruff (born 1958) chanced across a coffee table propaganda book on Mao Zedong and became interested in the visual rhetoric of Chinese Communism, eventually purchasing copies of La Chinethe French iteration of a periodical that the Chinese Communist Party produced from the late 1950s through the 1970s as a means of demonstrating the advantages of Communism to European countries. Ruff scanned images from La Chine depicting