Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Róisín Kennedy and Riann Coulter

Censoring Art: Silencing the Artwork

1Censorship in Disguise: Elusive Forms of Exclusion and the Examples of Cypriot Artists Socratis Socratous and Erhan Öze

Elena Parpa

Regulating Rumours

Language that Confines

Protocols that Bind

Conclusion

2Silenced Voices? The Censorship of Art in Iran

Kirstie Imber

Engaging with Censorship

Authorising Art and Culture in Iran: A Brief Overview

Silenced Voices?

Conclusion

3Art and Censorship in Stalin’s Russia in the 1930s

Judith Devlin

Patronage and Oversight

Self-Policing

The Dawn of the Terror

The Anti-Formalist Campaign

Conclusion

4Sex, Art and Museums: On the Changing Institutional Censorship of Shunga

Louise Boyd

What is Shunga?

Censorship in Edo Japan

Censorship in the UK

Changing Attitudes to Shunga in the British Museum

Exhibiting Shunga

Shunga and Modern Japan

Conclusion

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

Canada’s Olympia

6Censorship in the Irish Free State and its Implications for Irish Art

Róisín Kennedy

Censorship and the Irish Free State

Harry Clarke’s Geneva Window

Jack B. Yeats’s Jazz Babies

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

Conclusion

9The Contemporary Condition of Eilís O'Connell's The Great Wall of Kinsale

Sean Lynch

10Corporate Censorship

Alana Jelinek

Not Censorship but Something Else: The Art World

Not Censorship but Something Else: The Market

Corporate Censorship

The Self-Censoring Artist

Selected Bibliography

Index