Contents
Róisín Kennedy and Riann Coulter
Censoring Art: Silencing the Artwork
Elena Parpa
2Silenced Voices? The Censorship of Art in Iran
Kirstie Imber
Authorising Art and Culture in Iran: A Brief Overview
3Art and Censorship in Stalin’s Russia in the 1930s
Judith Devlin
4Sex, Art and Museums: On the Changing Institutional Censorship of Shunga
Louise Boyd
Changing Attitudes to Shunga in the British Museum
5‘Naked Ladies’: The Censorship of the Nude in Canadian Modern Art
Devon Smither
John Lyman’s ‘Travesties, Abortions, Sensual and Hideous Malformations’
John W. Russell and the 1927 Canadian National Exhibition
6Censorship in the Irish Free State and its Implications for Irish Art
Róisín Kennedy
Censorship and the Irish Free State
‘Defensive Attitudes’ – the Long-Term Implications of Censorship
7Post-Soviet and Post-colonial Forms of Art Censorship in Central Asia
Alexey Ulko
8 In the Shadow of Alexander the Great: Censorship, Ideology and Contemporary Art in Macedonia
Jonathan Blackwood
An Ecology of Contemporary Art in Macedonia
Case Study: Igor Toševski’s Territory, Plostad Makedonija, 2009
Case Study: Obsessive Possessive Aggression’s Solution, 2012
9The Contemporary Condition of Eilís O'Connell's The Great Wall of Kinsale
Sean Lynch
Alana Jelinek
Not Censorship but Something Else: The Art World