Censoring Art: Silencing the Artwork
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Overview
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.
Collected essays discussing and debating the pervasive effects of art censorship
Features a range of case studies drawn from global contexts, both contemporary and historical
Brings to light artworks that have been destroyed, hidden, ignored, transformed or never made
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
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.
- Title: Censoring Art: Silencing the Artwork
- Authors: Roisin Kennedy, Riann Coulter
- Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781838608101, 9781501361586, 1501361589, 1838608109
- Resource ID: LLS:9781838608101
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T13:28:16Z
Roisin Kennedy is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Irish Art at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on the critical reception of modernist art in Ireland, the role and function of art writing post 1880, and on the position of women as artists and subjects in modernist art. Riann Coulter is Curator/Manager at the F.E.McWilliam Gallery & Studio in County Down. She specialises in Irish and British modern and contemporary art and has over 15 years' experience curating and co-curating exhibitions for regional and national institutions throughout Ireland.