Untitled (Vasilis Fanos)
Category: Visual Arts
Artist: | Vasilis Fanos |
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Year: | 1961 |
Genre: | Painting |
Place: | Athens |
Censorship incidents
1961 | Police arrests painter Vasilis Fanos
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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.