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Mao Meets Muddy

Mao Meets Muddy

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Documentary

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Director Anthony Ramos joins his good friend, painter Frederick J. Brown, on a trip to Beijing for a retrospective of Brown’s work at the National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square in 1988, the first retrospective of an American artist in China.

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Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

35 mins

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Release Date

01 January 1989

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Cast

Anthony Ramos

Anthony Ramos

Frederick J. Brown

Frederick J. Brown

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