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====Date: [[:Category:1948|1948]]====

====Region: [[:Category:Europe|Europe]]====

====Subject: [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality]]====

====Medium: [[:Category:Radio|Radio]]====

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'''Artist:''' Antonin Artaud

'''Confronting Bodies:''' Wladimir Porche, director of "Radiodiffusion Francaise"

'''Dates of Action:''' February 1948

'''Location:''' France

'''Description of Artwork:''' Artaud's radio-production, "Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu," consisted of four parts to be read over the radio to introduce a program called "Voices of the Poets."  One part attacked American ambitions in the Marshall Plan, another evoked pagan gods from a Mexican cult to which Artaud belonged, another referred to feces and the last to the "anatomy of flatulance." 

'''The Incident:''' French press alerted the director of "Radiodiffusion Francaise", Wladimir Porche, of the controversial contents of Artaud's work.  Porche allowed a private listening of the piece before it aired.  Those who attended, including a Dominican priest, approved the segment; however, Porche did not permit the piece to air. 

'''Results of Incident:''' Artaud's piece was published in print and a public audition was held in February 1948.  Artaud died of cancer one month later.

'''Source:''' Censorship, A World Encyclopedia, ed. D. Jones

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[[Category:20th century]]
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[[Category:Explicit Sexuality]]
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