Sentences with phrase «debate about censorship»

His homoerotic photographs caused a national controversy involving the American Family Association which sparred a debate about censorship and public funding of the arts.

This was the first time a museum had been criminally charged, which led to national debate about censorship and public funding of the arts.

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Unless one bleaches the debate of its living doctrinal substance — and the Rav explicitly states that requiring men of faith to bracket their deepest experiences constitutes unacceptable censorship — it inevitably raises questions about atonement, justification, faith and works, and so on.

It's also part of a broader problem, in that politically - minded young people often seem instinctively uninterested in JS Mill - type arguments for free speech, and consider censorship questions as more about protecting certain groups from emotional pain than protecting individuals from those who would stop them participating in debate.

Biviano called the initial exclusion from the debate «censorship,» and claims that he is «the only candidate talking about people dying at LICH Hospital because it was closed, the tearing down of our libraries, condos in the Park and the political deception and lobbyists behind these issues.»

Exhibitions of his work in the late 80s, often controversial in content, sparked debates about public funding for the arts, censorship, First Amendment rights, and broadly, what defines art.

These exhibitions, and the controversial works they presented, sparked a larger international and ongoing debate about public funding for the arts, censorship and other First Amendment concerns, as well as the definition of that which is considered art.

In the late 1980s, after he was diagnosed with AIDS, Wojnarowicz» art took on a sharply political edge, and soon he was entangled in highly public debates about medical research and funding, morality and censorship in the arts, and the legal rights of artists.

In 1988, Mapplethorpe's major retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which included sexually explicit images depicting homoerotic and sadomasochistic subjects, sparked a fierce on - going public debate in America about censorship, the public funding for the arts and the definition of art itself.

The painting has provoked protests and sparked debates about white exploitation of black trauma, freedom of expression and censorship.

Bright's protest was followed by others and prompted a national debate about who has the power to represent whom, what qualifies as censorship, and the line between depicting real violence and exploiting the suffering of others.

In the first weeks of this 10th anniversary year of the September 11th attacks and the subsequent invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, with global economic and political policies fueling conflict and prompting revolt, there have been numerous programs, talks, and debates around the city about walls: metaphorical walls created by censorship, physical walls dividing Israeli and Palestinian territories or Mexican borders, but also boundaries that some artists insist are essential to maintaining the integrity of cultural expression and identity.

His actions in ending censorship of unpopular scientific opinions may speed resolution of this tiresome debate about matters already clearly answered a hundred times by precise experimental data and observations.