Gems: A Censored Anthology
- ISBN-10
- 0692217266
- ISBN-13
- 9780692217269
- Series
- Gems
- Category
- Censorship
- Pages
- 132
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-10-01
- Author
- Bob Brown
Description
Bob Brown published Gems, in 1931 with Roving Eye Press, soon after publishing Words with Nancy Cunard's Hours Press. Cunard had just finishing an edition of Havelock Ellis's Revaluation of Obscenity, a history of obscenity's definition and censorship. Brown wanted to produce a volume that would use visual design to expose the logic of censorship, by redacting words and phrases using the black bars, or boxes since he typeset the marks individually.Censorship is on everyone's mind today with news sources, governments, and schools trying to hide something "sensitive" from the roving eyes of children, citizens, and WikiLeaks. Bob Brown's Gems (1931) has much to teach us as he spoofs the redacting censors, and demonstrates how to read like a censor. Brown published this mad-libs-like send-up in his series of visually daring books about modern reading including The Readies, Words, Gems, Demonics, and Readies for Bob Brown's Machine.
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