| 期刊全称 | Art Discovery and Censorship in the Centre William Rappard of Geneva | | 期刊简称 | Building the Future | | 影响因子2023 | Edmundo Murray | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Elaborates art reception and censorship in the first international organizations building in Geneva.Describes historical intersections between diplomacy and art in a century-old building.Illustrates t | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | This is a history of the Centre William Rappard, the first building designed to house an international organization in Geneva, and its art treasures. For nearly a century, these works of art and decorations offered by governments and institutions encouraged smooth diplomacy and fluent international negotiations in the fields of labour, trade and human rights. On occasions hidden, removed and forgotten, and then recovered and restored, the history of the artworks in the Centre William Rappard represents the confrontation between art as diplomatic device and aesthetic experience, between representation and represented, between censorship and free expression. Even before its opening in 1926, the building started receiving works from the International Labour Organization member governments. Some pieces, such as the .Geneva Window. by Harry Clarke, never arrived in Geneva since it was censored by the Irish government. The Spanish .Pygmalion. by Eduardo Chicharro y Agüera was latter covered for its female nudity and remained hidden during decades. Later in the 1970s the secretariat of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade occupied the building and requested the removal of other majo | | Pindex | Book 2023 |
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