Aesthetics of censorship

_Control of all types of images
_Aesthetic rules of censorship
_Reception of imagery
_Book layout interprets censored aesthetics
_With a foreword by Erik Spiekermann

This publication by Berlin-based author and designer Marion Kliesch was awarded the “Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg Prize for Design-Critical Texts 2016” and the “Prize for Young Book Design” by the Stiftung Buchkunst.

Images have the potential to exert power, which is why they are withheld and manipulated, both in the past and today. Designer Marion Kliesch examines how information suppression manifests itself visually—how images are censored and what this means for their reception. What effect do these images have, and what can be said about their aesthetics? And how do obscured, pixelated, or invisible images influence our visual perception?
The first part of the book explores and describes the complexity of the topic. The second part analyzes various cases of visual censorship from the areas of censorship of the body, censorship of space, and censorship of memory. The examples range from pixelation of body parts and the virtual disappearance of parts of a country in satellite images to blocking access to the world's knowledge on the internet.