Censoring Art

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.

• 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 ModernArtRóisín Kennedy: Censorship in the Irish Free State and its implications for Irish Art.Kirstie Imber: Silenced voices: the censorship of art in IranJudith Devlin: Art and Censorship in Stalin’s Russia in 1930sAlexey Ulko: Post-Soviet and Post-colonial forms of Art Censorship in Central AsiaJon 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.