Censoring art : silencing the artwork
Art is continuously subjected to insidious forms of censorship. This may be by the Church to guard against moral degeneration, by the State to promote a specific political agenda, or by the art market, to elevate one artist above another. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, artwork that touches on ethnic, religious, sexual, national, or institutional sensitivities is liable to be destroyed or hidden away, ignored or side-lined. Drawing from new research into historical and contemporary case-studies, this book provides diverse ways of understanding the purpose and mechanisms of art censorship across distinct geopolitical and cultural contexts - from Iran, Japan, and Uzbekistan to Britain, Ireland, Canada, Macedonia, the Soviet Russia, and Cyprus. Its contributions uncover the impact of this silent control of the production and exhibition of art and consider how censorship has affected art practice and public perceptions of artworks. -- Adapted from publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2019
Bloomsbury Visual, London, 2019