The book "From the prohibition to freedom - The history of the legal positivization of the freedom of artistic creation" by Mateusz Bieczyński is a monographic study of changes in the way creative activity was and is regulated by the law in the period from antiquity to the present day. The book presents a process of gradual establishing a legal protection of artistic activity. It describes how the constitutional guarantee of freedom of art in the 20th century was set up.