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• Title:Ruling out art : media art meets law in Ontario's censor wars / Taryn Sirove.
  
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• Author/Creator:Sirove, Taryn, 1979-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Scholars Portal Books: Canadian University Presses 2019
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2019]
  

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  • Call Number: KEO798
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Law and art--Ontario.
  Arts--Censorship--Ontario.
  Freedom of expression--Ontario.
  New media art--Ontario.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  Law and art
  Arts
  Liberté d'expression
  Arts médiatiques
  Arts
  Freedom of expression.
  Law and art.
  New media art.
  Ontario.
  
• Description:1 online resource
  
• Series:Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
  
• Terms governing use:Access may be restricted to institutions with a site license.
  
• Summary:"In the 1980s, the Ontario Board of Censors began to subject media artists' work to the same cuts, bans, and warning labels as commercial film. Ruling Out Art reveals what happens when art and law intersect, when artists, arts exhibitors, and their anti-censorship allies enter courts of law as appellants, defendants, or expert witnesses. The administration of culture during Ontario's censor wars was not a simple top-down exercise. Members of arts communities mounted grassroots protests and engaged the province in court cases that ultimately influenced how the province interpreted freedom of expression, a fundamental and far-reaching legal right. The language of the law in turn shaped the way artists conceived of their own practices. By exploring how art practices and provincial legislation intertwined during Ontario's censor wars, this innovative book documents an important moment in the history of contemporary art and cultural activism in Canada, one that helped artists secure their constitutional rights under the law."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.
  
• ISBN:077483708X
  9780774837088
  
• Contents:Historicizing censorship
  Misunderstandings between art and law
  Competing anti-censorships and mixed legal outcomes
  Defining communities with uncertainty
  Media artists mobilize, mobilizing media arts.