Censorship in the arts

American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)

Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)

American musician (1940–1993)

American stand-up comedian (1937–2008)

American film director, producer, photographer and musician (born 1952)

American comedian and actor (1940–2005)

oil-on-canvas painted by Gustave Courbet (1866)

term used by the German Nazi regime to describe modern art

American comedian (1961–1994)

American comedian and social critic (1925–1966)

opera by Richard Strauss

American photographer (1946–1989)

1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis

2006 film by Serdar Akar

American conceptual artist (born 1945)

American sex educator and artist (born 1954)

Persian poet

French comedian, actor and political activist

term adopted by the Nazis during the 1920s to condemn modern culture that, according to Hitler, manifested symptoms of national decline

original song written and composed by Lenny Kravitz, Ingrid Chavez, Madonna

American photographer (1950- )

remark by John Lennon

American photographer (born 1939)

British comedian

conceptual political artist (born 1936)

South African artist (born 1968)

French satirical magazine

author and Civil War nurse

Australian photographer (born 1955)

South African-born Israeli artist (1932-2020)

American artist

Russian painter

An abridgement (or abridgment) is a condensing or reduction of a book or other creative work into a shorter form while maintaining the unity of the source. The abridgement can be true to the original work in terms of mood and tone, capturing the parts the abridging author perceives to be most important; it could be a complete parody of the original or it could fall anywhere in between, generally capturing the tone and message of the original author but falling short in some manner or subtly twisting their words and message to favor a different interpretation or agenda.

British artist

painting by Christopher R. W. Nevinson

book by V.S. Naipaul

Swedish street artist

American painter and conceptual artist (born 1957)

1984 film by Jacques Richard

performance show involving theatrical contortion of male genitalia along with comedic narration