Should Artists have Total Freedom of Expression?
Laws about obscenity, libel, slander and official secrets restrict freedom of expression, yet society’s understanding of what is offensive often needs to be clarified by the courts. Personal freedom requires the exercise of judgement even if law limits it.
Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights states, “Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers” and “ The exercise of these freedoms may be subject to such
…restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law…for the protection of the health or morals…or
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* Should great artists and works of art face the same restrictions that apply to lesser ones?
Conflict inevitably exists between what the creative artist needs to say and what an audience wants to hear. Artistically and culturally, many people are conservative and easily offended by what is different or new. Moral judgements may simply disguise lack of artistic taste and poor judgement. Artists, by definition creative, look for new things to say and new ways in which to say them. However, not all innovations are great art or improve society. Do demands for artistic freedom simply seek to justify inferior work and disguise lack of talent? Those making ethical rather than cultural judgements about artistic freedom should consider: -
* How will society benefit?
* What are the artist’s underlying motives? Does he/she seek to challenge, offend or explore?
* What are the motives of the audience? Does it seek to appreciate, judge or find fault?
* Would restrictions remove an artist’s right to choose?
“In New York at the Brooklyn Museum an exhibition called the
Sensations erupted a mushroom cloud of criticism and controversy
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Another part of the works of Marcus Harvey are a series of rich, textural paintings based on the photography of amateur photos of reader's wives and mistresses sent to cheap porno magazines. In addition to exacting textile patterns for the backgrounds, the women are illustrated with lavish brush-strokes, rich colours, and frantic movements that always imply motion. In this series of painting, Harvey combines abstract impressionism and porn, mating high and low art in a single piece, highlighting simultaneously both the objectifying of women and also the power and sway they hold over men via the most base emotions. Is Marcus Harvey pushing the barrier? Is his freedom to
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Four and a half months after the Union defeated the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. He gave the Union soldiers a new perspective on the war and a reason to fight in the Civil War. Before the address, the Civil War was based on states’ rights. Lincoln’s speech has the essence of America and the ideals that were instilled in the Declaration of Independence by the Founders. The sixteenth president of the United States was capable of using his speech to turn a war on states’ rights to a war on slavery and upholding the principles that America was founded upon. By turning the Civil War into a war about slavery he effortlessly ensured that no foreign country would recognize the South as an independent nation, ensuring Union success in the war. In his speech, Lincoln used the rhetorical devices of juxtaposition, repetition, and parallelism, to touch the hearts of its listeners.
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