Supporting the arts : fact, fiction or ideal

dc.contributor.advisorVan Marle, Karin
dc.contributor.emaillizelleleroux1@gmail.comen_US
dc.contributor.postgraduateLe Roux, Lizelle
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-26T11:16:50Z
dc.date.available2014-02-26T11:16:50Z
dc.date.created2013-09-04
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.descriptionDissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2013.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the possible contribution of art, specifically of classical music as high art, to the constitutional ideal of creating a society based on freedom and dignity. Although the government publically exhibits a keen interest in the arts there seems to be no constitutional right to art or duty to financially support it in any way. This results in a lack of urgency from government’s side to make good on undertakings to fund and financially assist the arts and consequently forces most western art forms into financial adversity. Art and entertainment differ inherently from each other and require different financial contributions from government. Hannah Arendt proposes a two-fold test to ascertain what constitutes high art and what amounts to ‘vulgamusik’ as suggested by Theodore Adorno. Where low art wallows in the ‘mundaneness’ of everyday life, high art offers a promise of longevity and of transformation with every encounter. Traditionally government support for high art is justified as contributing to an overall ‘upliftment’ of the general community, but as South Africa is already in the compromised position of not providing in the basic needs of its citizens funding for the arts needs to be re-visited. When exploring the nature of the fundamental rights to freedom and dignity it becomes apparent that the system of rights constitutes, similar to high art, a complex system and that exposure to complex systems will develop the imagination and a level of creativity when attempting to understand something of their intricate nature. In order to improve our perspective on what constitutes a better future an enhanced imagination is needed. The notion of complex systems and developing the imagination comes from an article by Mark Antaki and Paul Celliers and links with Arendt’s notion of understanding also the other with an ‘enlarged mentality’. It is through Drucilla Cornell’s concept of the imaginary domain as a space wherein one is constantly conceptualizing the ‘becoming’ of a better self, a better world and better future that the right to freedom and dignity can be realized. The encounter with high art makes it possible to integrate and ‘dream up’ that which seemed impossible into becoming a reality. Fen_US
dc.description.availabilityunrestricteden_US
dc.description.departmentJurisprudenceen_US
dc.description.librariangm2014en_US
dc.identifier.citationLe Roux, L 2013, Supporting the arts : fact, fiction or ideal, LLM dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/36774>en_US
dc.identifier.otherF13/9/818/gmen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/36774
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2013 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.en_US
dc.subjectContribution of arten_US
dc.subjectClassical musicen_US
dc.subjectHigh arten_US
dc.subjectFreedomen_US
dc.subjectDignityen_US
dc.subjectArt and entertainmenten_US
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.titleSupporting the arts : fact, fiction or idealen_US
dc.typeMini Dissertationen_US

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