Ulysses (novel)

Date: 1918, 1930

Region: North America

Subject: Explicit Sexuality

Medium: Literature


Artist: James Joyce

Confronting Bodies: Confronting Bodies U.S. Government

Dates of Action: 1918, 1930

Location: United States

Description of Artwork: James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

The Incident: In 1918 chapters published in the Little Review, are burned by the U.S. Post Office. In 1930, while en route to a potential American publisher, the U.S. Post Office once again seizes copies of the novel.

Results of Incident: In 1933, Federal Judge John Woolsey lifts the ban on Ulysses.

Source: National Association of Artists Organizations