In and Out of View

In and Out of View models an expansion in how censorship is discursively framed. Contributors from diverse backgrounds, including artists, art historians, museum specialists, and students, address controversial instances of art production and reception from the mid-20th century to the present in the Americas, Africa,
Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Their essays, interviews, and statements invite consideration of the shifting contexts, values, and needs through which artwork moves in and out of view. At issue are governmental restrictions and discursive effects, including erasure and distortion resulting from institutional policies, canonical processes, and interpretive methods. Crucial considerations concerning death/violence, authoritarianism, (neo)colonialism, global capitalism, immigration, race, religion, sexuality, activism/social justice, disability, campus speech, and cultural destruction are highlighted. The anthology—a thought-provoking resource for students and scholars in art history, museum and cultural studies, and creative practices—represents a timely and significant contribution to the literature on censorship.

Catha Paquette is Professor of Art History 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). In essays published in and outside the US, she has investigated production and reception of Latin American art in Latin America and the US, including promotion, circulation, and acquisition by collectors, public agencies, and private institutions.

Karen L. Kleinfelder is Professor of Art History 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 exhibition catalogues Picasso: Inside the Image (1995) and Picasso and the Mediterranean (1996). As a specialist in modern and contemporary art and theory, her research interests focus on gender, psychoanalysis, and complexity theory.

Christopher Miles is Professor of Art and director of the Center for Contemporary Ceramics at California State University Long Beach, USA. Among the exhibitions he has co-curated are THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles (Hammer Museum, 2005) and L.A. Invisible City (Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, 2010). His work has been shown at the ACME gallery, Pasadena Museum of California Art, and Patricia Sweetow Gallery. His writings have been extensively published in art journals and exhibition catalogs.