Full Description
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.
Contents
Róisín Kennedy and Riann Coulter: Introduction
Dr. Alana Jelinek: Corporate Censorship
Elena Parpa: Censorship in Disguise. Elusive forms of exclusion and the examples of Cypriot artists Socratis Socratous and Erhan Öze
Louise Boyd: Sex, Art, and Museums: On the Changing Institutional Censorship of Shunga
Devon Smither: 'Naked Ladies': The Censorship of the Nude in Canadian ModernArt
Róisín Kennedy: Censorship in the Irish Free State and its implications for Irish Art.
Kirstie Imber: Silenced voices: the censorship of art in Iran
Judith Devlin: Art and Censorship in Stalin's Russia in 1930s
Alexey Ulko: Post-Soviet and Post-colonial forms of Art Censorship in Central Asia
Jon Blackwood: In the shadow of Alexander the Great: Censorship, Ideology and Contemporary Art in Macedonia
Sean Lynch: Artwork: The Contemporary Condition of The Great Wall of Kinsale, A Rocky Road
