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. 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.Additional ISBNs9781501361586Censoring Art: Silencing the Artwork 1st Edition is written by Roisin Kennedy; Riann Coulter and published by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd. ISBNs for Censoring Art are 9781838608101, 1838608109 and the print ISBNs are 9781788313834, 1788313836. Additional ISBNs include 9781501361586.