by Sara Ring
Quick Summary
Here's a Minneapolis Institute of Arts Library Affinity event of interest to the library community, coinciding with Banned Books Week.
Here's a Minneapolis Institute of Arts Library Affinity event of interest to the library community, coinciding with Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week (September 23-29) highlights the value of free and open access to information, bringing together the entire book community in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas.
Don’t Read This! Don’t See This!
Censorship and the Creative Truth of Words and Art
Thursday, September 27, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
During the 1920s and ’30s in Germany, John Heartfield and other Dada artists showed their antiNazi collages in AIZ (Textile Worker’s) magazine. A regular feature, Heartfield’s photomontages savagely attacked both National Socialism and Weimar capitalism. The last AIZ published in Berlin was dated March 5, 1933; after the seizure of power by Hitler, it moved to Prague, then to Paris in 1938, where it published at least 4 issues before its demise. Joseph Doherty, Curatorial Department Assistant and Collections Coordinator in the department of Photography and New Media will talk about issues of this important publication.
Dennis Michael Jon, senior associate curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings, will talk about the collaborative artists’ book Ten Years of Uzbekistan, 1994, by British artist Ken Campbell and Irish Author David King, a work with a focus on political oppression and Goya’s Los Caprichos (1797/98), an example of self-oppression as well as a satirical political treatise about the Spanish government and merchant class.
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Cover image: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Spain, 1746–1828, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos, 1797–98, P.83.57.43
