South African art, the romantic principle and the Grahamstown group

Title: South African art, the romantic principle and the Grahamstown group
Creator: Clark, George Phillip Haven
Subject: Art, South African
Subject: Art -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
Date: 1977
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MFA
Identifier: vital:2501
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014638
Description: The purpose of this essay is to examine the "rumblings in the belly of Leviathan from which we are able to diagnose his disease" (Comfort). Adopting a cyclical idea of art, it aims to point out that South African art has degenerated to a state where the much publicised so-called leaders of art are simply using charm techniques to woo the consent of a society whose metaphysics are derived from twentieth century collective materialism. The South African situation is examined, as is the Romantic principle underlying all genuine artistic activity. It is proposed that the cure lies in a reinstatement of this principle and in a readjustment of the concepts of reality and unreality. Finally, the Grahamstown Group is propounded as an embodiment of the Romantic principle with its implicit concept of artistic reality.
Format: 76 leaves, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art
Language: English
Rights: Clark, George Phillip Haven

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