DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Censoring Art

Silencing the Artwork

Róisín Kennedy editor Riann Coulter editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:31st Oct '19

Should be back in stock very soon

Censoring Art cover

Collected essays discussing and debating the pervasive effects of art censorship

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.

An excellent contribution to contemporary discussions on how censorship still frames how art is made, presented and viewed ... A timely and well-judged collection of essays, edited with skill and intelligence by Kennedy and Coulter. Its scope is modern and global. * Irish Arts Review *

ISBN: 9781501361586

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 526g

232 pages