"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few." ~ William Morris
Self portrait by an Artist Inside (c) 2005
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. NADINE GORDIMER, speech, June 1990
General Information for Artists on Modification And Destruction of Artists' Works:
In the past, artists in the United States had virtually no power to protect their work from mutilation, destruction or misattribution in instances of modification of their works. In 1990, Congress amended the Copyright Act of 1976 to include the Visual Artists Rights Act (Section 106A), which provides for the rights of attribution and the physical integrity of certain works of art. These moral rights apply only to "work[s] of visual art", including:
• a painting, drawing, print, or sculpture, existing in a single copy, in a limited edition of 200 copies or fewer that are signed and consecutively numbered by the author, or, in the case of a sculpture, in multiple casts, carved, or fabricated, sculptures of two hundred or fewer that are consecutively numbered by the author and bear the signature or other identifying mark of the author, or; • a still photographic image produced for exhibition purposes only, existing in a single copy that is signed by the author, or in a limited edition of 200 copies or fewer that are signed and consecutively numbered by the author. Section 106A is titled "Rights of certain authors to attribution and integrity" and specifically recognizes that authors of a work of visual art.
Inspired by Paul Klee
Kandinsky "I and the Village"
Aztec Youth Academy High School