Suspended License: Censorship and the Visual Arts

Suspended License: Censorship and the Visual Arts by Childs, Elizabeth C.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780295976273.

Explores censorship of the visual arts over the centuries, examining the range of political, social, and artistic circumstances in which censorship has occurred in environments such as 16th-century Germany and Italy, 19th-century France, and 20th-century Germany, China, and America. Themes include censorship of contemporary artists in China, the rejection of modernism in Nazi Germany and in McCarthy-era Texas, and recent debates over government sponsorship of the arts, using the work of Wojnarowicz and Mapplethorpe as examples. Includes b&w photos and illustrations. For general readers and scholars. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.