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censorship and the visual arts
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Survey of censorship of the visual arts over the centuries and in a variety of cultural contexts, seeking to elucidate the range of political, social and artistic circumstances in which censorship has occurred. Examples from the reformation in Germany, from the Renaissance in Italy (Michelangelo and Veronese), Goya in eighteenth century Spain, Daumier and Manet in nineteenth century France, censorship in the U.S. during the McCarthy periode and in the eighties concerning the work of Mapplethorp. Art censorship in socialist China.