{"product_id":"playboy-braille-edition-part-2-of-5-parts-may-1983","title":"Playboy. Braille Edition. Part 2 of 5 Parts. May 1983","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Braille edition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e feels closer to a conceptual work of art than to the magazine itself. For decades, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epublished a Braille edition for blind and visually impaired readers. Funded by the U.S. Library of Congress through its National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, this edition omitted the nude photographs and instead reproduced only the magazine's textual content.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe project became the subject of controversy in the 1980s when Chalmers Wylie, a Republican congressman from Ohio, sought to withdraw public funding. A court subsequently ordered the funding to be restored, ruling that its withdrawal constituted an infringement on access to information.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeyond its popular reputation, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e also played a significant role as a political, cultural, and literary magazine. It published early discussions of gay rights, women’s rights, freedom of expression, and First Amendment issues, while featuring work by acclaimed writers such as Truman Capote, Haruki Murakami, Anaïs Nin, and Margaret Atwood, alongside artwork by Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and Ellen Lanyon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54040517050707,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Playboy600.png?v=1781881294","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/playboy-braille-edition-part-2-of-5-parts-may-1983","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}