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The Spoliarium is a painting by Filipino painter Juan Luna. Luna, working on canvas , spent eight months completing the painting which depicts dying gladiators. The painting was submitted by Luna to the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1884 in Madrid , where it garnered the first gold medal (out of three). [ 1 ]
The author talked about his experience being imprisoned in a "Vietnamese Gulag" for "Anti-revolutionary propaganda" [313] The book was banned with all copies ordered to be destroyed following the Decision No. 395 Regulation of the then Ministry of Culture and Information for violating Clauses 1 and 2 of the Article 33, Publishing Law. Which ...
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
A complete list of the authors and writings present in the subsequent editions of the index are listed in J. Martinez de Bujanda, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 1600–1966, Geneva, 2002. The Index includes entries for single or multiple works by an author, all works by an author in a given genre or dealing with a given topic.
What: Actor, author and "Reading Rainbow" founder LeVar Burton joins the L.A. Times Book Club to discuss the State of Banned Books with Times editor Steve Padilla. When: May 24 at 7 p.m. Pacific .
So, she opened Loudmouth Books, a store dedicated to selling books by marginalized authors. This bestselling author’s book was challenged in schools. So, she opened a store for banned books
A viral Feb. 1 tweet said, "Books banned in Texas include 1984, Maus, and The Handmaid's Tale, but not Mein Kampf. I'm done arguing with the people over whether this is fascism."
The following articles contain lists of prohibited books: Index Librorum Prohibitorum. List of authors and works on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum; List of books banned by governments. Book censorship in Canada; Book censorship in China; List of books banned in India; Book censorship in Iran; List of authors banned in Nazi Germany