Slight creasing on spine and small marks on front cover. Otherwise good condition

Explores censorship of the visual arts over the centuries, examining the range of political, social, and artistic circumstances in which censorship has occurred in environments such as 16th-century Germany and Italy, 19th-century France, and 20th-century Germany, China, and America. Themes include censorship of contemporary artists in China, the rejection of modernism in Nazi Germany and in McCarthy-era Texas, and recent debates over government sponsorship of the arts, using the work of Wojnarowicz and Mapplethorpe as examples. Includes b&w photos and illustrations. For general readers and scholars.