The topic of censorship comes up quite a lot when researching books. Various works by and attributed to Frank Harris have been banned, for example, as was (for rather more innocent reasons) Parables from Stamps.
A new artwork by Marta Minujín will celebrate such books, using as source material a list compiled by the University of Kassel. Frank Harris fans will note the presence of his The Bomb, presumably because of its sympathetic treatment of anarchists.
Read more about this: https://qz.com/954803/parthenon-of-books-access-a-database-of-70000-books-banned-around-the-world-going-back-to-1575/
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