Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe

In this comprehensive account of censorship of the visual arts in nineteenth-century Europe, when imagery was accessible to the illiterate in ways that print was not, specialists in the history of the major European countries trace the use of censorship by the authorities to implement their fears of the visual arts, from caricature to cinema.

“By the richness and diversity of geographical areas studied, this unique book, seems absolutely essential.” (Translated from French, Guillaume Doizy, caricatures&caricature, caricaturesetcaricature.com, September, 2016)“Goldstein organized the 2010 Italian conference that gave rise to these papers, which examine political and legal attempts to curb the ever-proliferating numbers of visual images in journals, broadsheets, posters, and satirical newspapers following the French Revolution. … The bibliography is extensive. … for those interested in governmental attempts to define visual items to censor, regardless of regime, readers will find abundant material. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.” (M. Deshmukh, Choice, Vol. 53 (10), June, 2016)

Robert Justin Goldstein is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Oakland University in Michigan, USA, and Research Associate at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA. He specializes in the history of censorship and human rights in modern western democracies.Andrew M. Nedd teaches art history at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), USA. From 2004 to 2014, he served as the chair of the SCAD Art History Symposium. Nedd specializes in Russian art and in recent years travelled to China, where he published articles dealing with contemporary art of that country.