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Topic spans: 1965 - 2002
Artists Busted: Censorship in Canada
In the 1960s, police busted a gallery owner for an installation of nudes. More recently, when an artist filmed a cat being killed and eaten, the artist was locked up. Even if the country's definition of obscenity has transformed over time, for decades the debate has stayed the same: Is art censorship an act thwarting obscenity or an Orwellian control?
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Flesh dress gets new meat
Broadcast Date: April 8, 1991
Gzowski interviews artist replacing raw meat on Jana Sterbak's controversial steak dress.Flesh dress gets new meat
Medium: Radio
Program: Morningside
Broadcast Date: April 8, 1991
Guest(s): Richard Gagne, Sarah Jennings
Host: Peter Gzowski
Duration: 6:57
Last updated:
Jan. 2, 2004
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Radio
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Aug. 9, 1948
Le Refus global (Total Refusal), one of the most influential artistic and social documents in modern Quebec society, was made public at a Montreal bookstore.
Radio
3:55
Feb. 4, 1967
The Nova Scotia Board of Censors bans the "obscene and blasphemous" film adaptation of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Flesh dress gets new meat.
The CBC Digital Archives Website.
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Last updated: Jan. 2, 2004.
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