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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
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Press Photos
Click on the photo for a 300dpi jpeg
 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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