Untitled (Antonis Dalkos)

Category: Visual Arts > Public space

Artist:Antonis Dalkos
Year:1960
Genre:Painting
Place:Athens

Censorship incidents

1960
Police arrests painter Antonis Dalkos
Reason:Politics | Public order
Type of censorship:Institutional censorship | Repressive censorship

Description

In June 1960, the painter Antonis Dalkos complained to the journal Epitheorisi Thechnis (Art Review) that ‘a policeman prevented [him] from painting the “market” of Athens, and because [he] disobeyed [he] was taken to jail, where [he] was kept for five days and nights’.

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Sources – Bibliography

  • Epitheorisi Thechnis, December 1961, vol 84.