Untitled (Vasilis Fanos)

Category: Visual Arts

Artist:Vasilis Fanos
Year:1961
Genre:Painting
Place:Athens

Censorship incidents

1961
Police arrests painter Vasilis Fanos
Reason:Politics | Public order
Type of censorship:Arrest | Repressive censorship | Institutional censorship

Description

In 1961, during the election period, Vasilis Fanos was painting in the area of Egaleo (a western suburb of Athens) when ‘local thugs arrested the painter and took him to the police station on the grounds that he was painting ... suspiciously!’ as revealed by the journal Epitheorisi Thechnis (Art Review).

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Sources – Bibliography

  • Epitheorisi Thechnis, December 1961, vol. 84.