Censorship in Art Does it belong??. Michelangelo’s David Statue of the Bible’s David Created in 1504 1939- replica placed in a cemetery with a fig

Censorship in ArtDoes it belong??

Michelangelo’s DavidMichelangelo’s David

Statue of the Bible’s David

Created in 1504 1939- replica

placed in a cemetery with a fig leaf to cover “objectionable”

Statue of the Bible’s David

Created in 1504 1939- replica

placed in a cemetery with a fig leaf to cover “objectionable”

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Seen as objectionable since there were “common people” in it- too socialist and radical

Seen as objectionable since there were “common people” in it- too socialist and radical



Gustave Courbet's A Burial at Ornans

Diego Rivera’s “Man at the Crossroads”Diego Rivera’s “Man at the Crossroads”

Seen as too and has Lenin in it-

Socialist

Seen as too and has Lenin in it-

Socialist



Edouard Manet's “Olympia”Edouard Manet's “Olympia”

1865 Modeled after a

“real” woman instead of a goddess

Too real Moved to the

highest spot in the gallery

1865 Modeled after a

“real” woman instead of a goddess

Too real Moved to the

highest spot in the gallery



Jasper Johns, “Flag” (1954-55)Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jasper Johns, “Flag” (1954-55)Museum of Modern Art, New York

“Johns’s rendering of the American flag “startled an art world that was still largely preoccupied with abstraction. … Alfred Barr of the Museum of Modern Art wanted to purchase the work but worried that it might be seen as unpatriotic by his board, so he arranged for someone else to buy it and later donate it to the museum.” The Warhol: Lessons and Resources, http://edu.warhol.org/app_johns

“Johns’s rendering of the American flag “startled an art world that was still largely preoccupied with abstraction. … Alfred Barr of the Museum of Modern Art wanted to purchase the work but worried that it might be seen as unpatriotic by his board, so he arranged for someone else to buy it and later donate it to the museum.” The Warhol: Lessons and Resources, http://edu.warhol.org/app_johns

MoviesMovies

Birth of a Nation In 1999 Voted as one

of AFI’s top 100 movies of all time for advances in cinematography

Removed on second draft of top 100

Lauds the KKK

Birth of a Nation In 1999 Voted as one

of AFI’s top 100 movies of all time for advances in cinematography

Removed on second draft of top 100

Lauds the KKK



A Clockwork Orange- 1971A Clockwork Orange- 1971

Stanley Kubric himself changed the movie in order to get the rating decreased

Restricted it to 1 theater

TOO violent according to many

Stanley Kubric himself changed the movie in order to get the rating decreased

Restricted it to 1 theater

TOO violent according to many



Martin Scorsee’s The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsee’s The Last Temptation of Christ

1988 Shows Jesus as a

confused man Tempted by a

“normal” life with Mary Magdalene

1988 Shows Jesus as a

confused man Tempted by a

“normal” life with Mary Magdalene



MUSICMUSIC

Jazz was “voodoo” music

Prohibition music Incites sexual

activity

Jazz was “voodoo” music

Prohibition music Incites sexual

activity



Elvis PresleyElvis Presley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_1K6h1WFC0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GT__g7F7jI\

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOvUdZgl7vo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GT__g7F7jI\

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOvUdZgl7vo

Vulgar Lack of musicality Creates Juvenile

delinquency Ed Sullivan

wouldn’t have him on his show

Vulgar Lack of musicality Creates Juvenile

delinquency Ed Sullivan

wouldn’t have him on his show




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GT__g7F7jI









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Censorship in Art Does it belong??. Michelangelo’s David Statue of the Bible’s David Created in 1504 1939- replica placed in a cemetery with a fig