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BANNED & RECOVERED: ARTISTS RESPOND TO CENSORSHIP

An exhibition at two venues:
San Francisco Center for the Book
Aug. 15-Nov. 26, 2008
Public reception Fri., Aug. 15, 6-8pm
Gallery hours: Mon-Fri, 10-5; Sat, 12-4

African American Museum and Library at Oakland
Sept. 5-Dec. 31, 2008
Public reception Fri., Sept. 5, 6:30-9:00pm
Gallery hours: Tues-Sat, 12-5:30

Below is the list of the participating artists and the texts used. The press release and more information about the exhibition are available here.

Artist Author/Title
Jody Alexander Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Michael Bartalos Comics Code Authority (1954)
Sandow Birk / Elyse Pignolet Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
Eva Bovenzi D.T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism
Milton Bowens  Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Jonathan Burstein Marquis De Sade, 120 Days of Sodom
Victor Cartagena Roque Dalton, Selected Poems
Enrique Chagoya William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
Alejandra Chaverri Isabel Allende, House of the Spirits
Mitchell Confer  Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Brian Dettmer Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Emory Douglas Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Jordan Essoe Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
Clinton Fein The Wall
Terri Garland Holy Bible
Beth Grossman Mark Twain, Letters from Earth
Liz Hager J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Art Hazelwood Voltaire, Candide
Charles Hobson Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Justin Hoover Allen Ginsberg, Howl

Woody Johnson Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Richard Kamler James Joyce, Ulysses
Lisa Kokin American Heritage Dictionary
Barbara Kossy Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
Mary Laird Aesop’s Fables
Patricia Lenz Margaret Sanger, Family Limitation
Jose Ramos Lerma John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Malcolm Lubliner  Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Kara Maria Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Mary Marsh The Patriot Act
David Molina Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Wendy Miller J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Barbara Milman Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
Doug Minkler Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Eileen Moderbacher John Cleland, Fanny Hill
Daniel Newman George Orwell, 1984
Priscilla Otani Parmoedya Ananta Toer, Buru Quartet
Nigel Poor Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Beatrice Spark, Go Ask Alice
Stephen King, Carrie
Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind
May Sarton, The Education of Harriet Hatfield
John Cleland, Fanny Hill
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Favianna Rodriguez Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Roberto Rovira Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
Joe Sam Richard Wright, Black Boy
Jos Sances Peter Parnell/Justin Richardson, And Tango Makes Three
Elizabeth Sher Robbie Harris, It’s Perfectly Normal
Vered Shomron Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Livia Stein Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Hadi Tabatabai  Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Tim Tate  Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover
Helen Banneman, The Story of Little Black Sambo
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Brothers Grimm, Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Voltaire, Candide
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Sandra Ortiz Taylor Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
Bryan Keith Thomas Toni Morrison, Beloved
Kathleen Walkup Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Tanya Wilkinson Lee Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird
Noah Wilson John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Nancy Worthington Brothers Grimm, Little Red Ridding Hood
Jan Wurm D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Artists producing work not based on specific titles:
Guillermo Bert
David Broom
Luis Delgado
Ala Ebtekar
Rodney Ewing
Mildred Howard
Naomie Kremer
Penny Nii
Sasha Mosalov
Anne Siberell
Kazuko Watanabe

 


 
Press Photos
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Enrique Chagoya's "Double Portrait of William Burroughs"


"Building Madame Bovary," by Charles Hobson


"Tropic of Cancer," by Kara Maria


"Technical Acquisitions of the Last Centuries," by Jordan Essoe


"Wrapped Words," by Jody Alexander


"Brave New World" by Brian Dettmer


"Origin" by Roberto Rovira

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