Syndicate: Olga Tobreluts: FREEDOM IN ART - ILLUSION???

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@transmediale.de>]

From: "Olga Tobreluts" <dog@mail.wplus.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:36:04 +0400


-FREEDOM IN ART - ILLUSION???


>From the Easter issue of the Times Literary Supplement:
>
>Preparing a new edition of his book, "Movements in Modern Art", the art
>historian Edward Lucie-Smith decided to include a collage by the Russian
>artist Olga Tobreluts. It takes a martyred San Sebastian by Perugino and
>melds onto it the face of Leonardo Di Caprio. However, lawyers acting for
>Thames and Hudson decided it was too risky to have in a book which would
>also be published in the US, "where celebrities patent their image and are
>sometimes ferocious in defending them".
>Mr. Lucie-Smith regards this as an insidious form of censorship. Writing in
>the latest issue of "Index", he points out that the artist John Heartfield
>used similar techniques to satirize the Nazi leadership in the 1930s.
>"Suppose Hitler or Goebbels had been able to patent their images the same
>way. Would Thames and Hudson dare to publish the picture?"


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