![](https://sculpturereview.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2013SpringCover.jpg)
The Spring 2013’s theme is ‘Creating, Breaking and Censoring’. It explores how views of sculpture change over time because of restoration and censorship and responses to the social atmosphere.
Features
![](https://sculpturereview.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/spring2013-6.jpeg)
Sometimes destruction of a piece of sculpture, whether by natural or man-made cause, can bring about renewed interest, hope, and life to an artwork.
![](https://sculpturereview.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/spring2013-4.jpg)
Sculptures throughout history have been broken, altered, and censored. This has been done by people who feel justified in doing so often at transitional moments when there is a change in social, political, or moral interpretation of that sculpture.
![](https://sculpturereview.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Spring2013-3.jpg)
Art often suffers at the hands of zealots, but luckily, not every effort to censor works of art is physically destructive.
![](https://sculpturereview.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Spring2013-2.jpg)
Works of art in sculpture have been attacked, damaged, and even destroyed throughout history, for reasons ranging from the political to the religious to the personal.
![](https://sculpturereview.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Spring2013-1.jpg)
The censorship of sculpture is a phenomenon as ancient as the biblical destruction of the Golden Calf and as current as the toppling of a dictator’s statue in the Middle East.