Censoring art : silencing the artwork / edited by Róisín Kennedy, Riann Coulter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coulter, Riann, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

International library of visual culture.

International library of visual culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Censorship.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018.

Summary:

"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. Now, and in the last century, 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, Censoring Art: Silencing the Artwork 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, 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Censoring art: silencing the artwork / Róisín Kennedy and Riann Coulter

1. Censorship in disguise: elusive forms of exclusion and the examples of Cypriot artists Socratis Socratous and Erhan Öze / Elena Parpa

2. Silenced voices? the censorship of art in Iran / Kirstie Imber

3. Art and censorship in Stalin's Russia in the 1930s / Judith Devlin

4. Sex, art and museums: on the changing institutional censorship of shunga / Louise Boyd

5. 'Naked ladies': the censorship of the nude in Canadian modern art / Devon Smither

6. Censorship in the Irish Free State and its implications for Irish art / Róisín Kennedy

7. Post-Soviet and post-colonial forms of art censorship in Central Asia / Alexey Ulko

8. In the shadow of Alexander the Great: censorship, ideology and contemporary art in Macedonia / Jonathan Blackwood

9. The contemporary condition of Eilís O'Connell's The Great Wall of Kinsale / Sean Lynch

10. Corporate Censorship / Alana Jelinek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203) and index.

ISBN:

9781350985636

1350985635

9781838608101

1838608109

9781838608118

1838608117

OCLC:

1162698527