<P> The Rent Collection Courtyard (Chinese: 收 租 院; pinyin: shōuzū yuàn) is a clay collection of 114 life - sized sculptures in located in the courtyard of the former home of rural landlord Liu Wencai in Dayi County, Sichuan created by Ye Yushan and a team of sculptors from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1965 . It is a famous work of Socialist Realist sculpture showing an evil landlord collecting rent from poor peasants, it is one of the most powerful works of the cultural revolution . Copies were made and put on display in Beijing after modification to make them more powerful as works of propaganda . </P> <P> In the 1999 Venice Biennale, the contemporary Chinese artist Cai Guo - Qiang referenced the sculpture in the performance piece Venice's Rent Collection Courtyard in which he hired artisans to recreate the sculpture . </P>

The rent collection courtyard documents a scene from ____ history