Blog Posts for Censorship

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Blog Posts for Censorship

Scandal, Outrage and Censorship: Controversy in Modern Art

Date of Publication (formatted): 
December, 1991
Summary: 

This exhibition catalog of works displayed at the Galerie St. Etienne from January 21 through March 7, 1992 in New York City include works by censored Austrian and German artists under the Nazis. In this introduction to the exhibit, there is also a discussion of attacks on the NEA for funding controversial exhibit such as Robert Mapplethorpe, whose works are included in this exhibit.

Blog Posts for Censorship

Pornography and Censorship

Date of Publication (formatted): 
December, 1982
Summary: 

This work involves three sections: philosophical essays, social scientific studies, and judicial essays. As a discussion of freedom of expression, this work is relevant to arts policy. The work, however, rarely makes connections among pornography and art. Selected chapters analyzed.

Blog Posts for Censorship

Blog Posts for Censorship

Blog Posts for Censorship

Blog Posts for Censorship

Democratic Art: The New Deal's Influence on American Culture

Date of Publication (formatted): 
January, 2015
Summary: 

Drawing on close readings of government-funded architecture, murals, plays, writing, and photographs, Democratic Art argues that those engaged in New Deal art were part of an explicitly cultural agenda that sought not just to create art but to democratize and Americanize it as well. By tracing a range of aesthetic visions that flourished during the 1930s, this brand new book outlines the successes, shortcomings, and lessons of the golden age of government funding for the arts.

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