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Censorship of the image varied from one nation to another in nineteenthcentury Europe; therefore, no single case that makes up this collection will provide a complete picture of the nature and impact of censorial regimes. Nevertheless, a number of common characteristics emerge: visual culture was regulated by a variety of governments (monarchical, imperial, and republican), the church and state’s monopoly over artistic patronage increasingly waned during the course of the century, and the public’s demand for democratization of cultural and political life spurred increasing challenges to censorship. Modernization, in all its manifestations, and how each regime responded to the changes it wrought, is the most important factor that forced European political regimes to modify censorship regulations. Robert Justin Goldstein characterizes these changes: “Censorship of the press and arts above all reflects the fact that, in an age of urban industrialization, widespread literacy and rapid transportation and communications, what average citizens think matters to political leaders.”1
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Robert Justin Goldstein, Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Houndmills, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1989), xiv.
Charles Ruud, “Russia,” in The War for the Public Mind: Political Censorship in Nineteenth-Century Europe, ed. Robert Justin Goldstein (Westport: Praeger, 2000 ), 267.
Quoted in David King and Cathy Porter, Images of Revolution: Graphic Art from 1905 Russia ( New York: Pantheon Books, 1983 ), 20.
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Nedd, A.M. (2015). Introduction. In: Goldstein, R.J., Nedd, A.M. (eds) Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316493_1
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