POETRY & LITERATURE
Curator's Tour: Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored
December 1, 2011
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Assistant Director and Curator for Academic Programs Danielle Brune Sigler leads a tour of the exhibition Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored on Thursday, December 1, at 7 p.m. at the Harry Ransom Center.
How did hundreds of thousands of books, pictures, plays, and magazines come to be banned, burned, seized, and censored in the span of less than 30 years? This exhibition reveals the rarely seen "machinery" of censorship in the United States between the two world wars. Using tactics from extra-legal intimidation to federal prosecution, censors from the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, New England's Watch and Ward Society, the Post Office Department, and the Treasury Department waged war on "objectionable" literature. Larger-than-life personalities battled publicly over obscenity, "clean books," and freedom of expression while writers, agents, and publishers attempted to navigate the increasingly complex world of American censorship.
If you are unable to attend the curator's tour, free docent-led tours of the exhibitions are offered Tuesdays at noon and on Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. The exhibition runs through January 22.
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December 1, 2011Times:
7:00
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