By In and Out of View: Art and the Dynamics of Circulation, Suppression, and Censorship

Art and the Dynamics of Circulation, Suppression, and Censorship, which represents a significant contribution to the literature on art censorship, is varied in terms of subjects, authorial voices, and disciplinary methods. At issue are governmental restrictions and discursive effects, such as erasure and distortion resulting from institutional policies, interpretive methods, and canonical processes. Considerations range from death and violence to race, sexuality, disability, immigration, labor, and cultural destruction/re-construction. Geographic focus includes Africa, Argentina, China, Germany, Mexico, the Middle East, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The text models a shift in how censorship is discursively framed, as contributors consider shifting contexts, values, and constituent needs through which contested works of art move into and out of circulation and point to the complexities involved in assessing determinants and consequences. Review "This is a useful and complex book, an anthology that potently demystifies a broad array of recent histories of truly much more than censorship: in this volume, its range of contributors seek to interrogate, understand, and explain marginalization itself: of artists, of artworks, of underrepresented vantage points and histories, all jockeying for visibility within the often-unjust, market-driven heteropatriarchy that is the contemporary art world." -- Jenni Sorkin, Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and author of Art in California. About the Author Catha Paquette is Professor of Latin American art at California State University Long Beach, USA. She is the author of At the Crossroads: Diego Rivera and His Patrons at MoMA, Rockefeller Center, and the Palace of Fine Arts (2017). Karen L. Kleinfelder is Professor of Art History and Director of the School of Art at California State University, Long Beach, USA. She is the author of The Artist, His Model, Her Image, His Gaze: Picasso's Pursuit of the Model (1993) and has been published in the anthologies Picasso (1995) and Picasso and the Mediterranean (1996). Christopher Miles is Professor of Art at California State University Long Beach, USA. His work has been shown at the Pacific Design Center, ACME gallery, Actual Size gallery, Mount St. Mary's College, and Pasadena Museum of California Art.