[SydPhil] Contagious Joy: Censorship, Homosexuality, and Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde, circa 1913

[Alexandre Lefebvre]

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Contagious Joy: Censorship, Homosexuality, and Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde, circa 1913

Mark Antliff
Mary Grace Wilson Professor of Art,
Art History & Visual Studies,
Duke University


This paper will examine international anarchist movements’ defense of Oscar Wilde’s famous Tomb, carved by Jacob Epstein, which was subjected to State censorship for “indecency” when it was installed at Père Lachaise cemetery  in Paris in 1912.




Thursday 18 February 2016
2:00-3:30pm

Muniment Room (S401)*
Level 4, Lobby B (Southern Vestibule)
Quadrangle
University Place
The University of Sydney

*The Muniment Room is accessible via either the Northern (Lobby Q) or Southern (Lobby B) Vestibules’ staircases on the Eastern side of the Quadrangle Building (facing the city).
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