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32.1 The Cultural Location of Art 32.1 The Cultural Location of Art
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32.2 Art and Moral Value: Aesthetic Theory 32.2 Art and Moral Value: Aesthetic Theory
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32.3 Art Controlled by Ideology 32.3 Art Controlled by Ideology
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32.4 Art, Beauty and Social Justice 32.4 Art, Beauty and Social Justice
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32.5 Art and Social Transformation 32.5 Art and Social Transformation
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32.6 Art in the Struggle for Liberation 32.6 Art in the Struggle for Liberation
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32 Art, Morality, and Justice
Get accessJohn W. de Gruchy is Emeritus Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Cape Town and Extraordinary Professor in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Stellenbosch. He has doctorates in both theology and the social sciences. He has published widely on the church in South Africa, on the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, of Christianity and the arts, and more recently on Christian humanism. He and his wife and members of the Volmoed Community near Hermanus, a retreat and conference centre which exists to promote reconciliation and justice.
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Published:03 February 2014
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Abstract
This article examines visual art and its relationship with morality and justice. It first considers justice-related ethical issues raised by the relationship between art and morality, including censorship, plagiarism, and property rights. It then discusses the link between aesthetics and ethics, or beauty and morality, and situates art within particular historical contexts and cultures. It also analyzes the views of four post-Enlightenment philosophers toward aesthetics: Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Søren Kierkegaard. Furthermore, it comments on the extent to which bias of race, gender and class can influence the work of artists. The article also looks at the connections between art, beauty, morality, and social justice and the moral power of art to change society for the better. Finally, it describes the role of the arts in the struggle against apartheid and liberation.
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