See? No. (Evil)
29”w - 41.25”h - 15.5”d
Vintage Frame, Hat, Sculpted Hands, Book
This piece is a reaction to book banning. The custom book cover includes an abridged list of books challenged or banned from school curricula or libraries in the U.S. (listed below) as well as the following quotes from prominent figures against the censorship of books.
“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” ―Henry Louis Gates Jr.
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” ―Salman Rushdie
“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” ―George R.R. Martin
“Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.” ―Eugene O’Neill
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
This Book Is Gay by Sarah McBride
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
New Kid by Jerry Craft
Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Walter the Farting Dog by William Kotzwinkle
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
Freckleface Strawberry by Julianne Moore
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Call of the Wild by Jack London