Is Art Above the Laws of Decency?
GENERAL
In this chapter of the book Public Policy and the Aesthetic Interest: Critical Essays on Defining Cultural and Education Relations, this chapger by Hilton Krammer discusses: Should public standards of decency and civility be observed in determining which works of art or art events are to be selected for the government's support? Or, to state the issue in still another way, is everything and anything to be permitted in the same of art? Or, to state the issue in still another way, is art now to be considered such an absolute value that no other standard -no standard of taste, no social or moral standard- is to be allowed to play any role in determining what sort of art is appropriate for the government to support? (p. 229)
In this chapter of the book <i>Public Policy and the Aesthetic Interest: Critical Essays on Defining Cultural and Education Relations</i>, this chapger by Hilton Krammer discusses: Should public standards of decency and civility be observed in determining which works of art or art events are to be selected for the government's support?