An Artist's Responsibility
In: https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3Athesis_50099
This thesis shows what I have understood about rebellion and what it means when it is "real" or "realized", either in art or in any other living form. The consequences of rebellion, I found, are responsibility, creativity and generosity. Together, it seems, these make up the "good" or moral person and the "healthy environment." Camus's The Rebel, and the three artists whose works I have looked at in for me new ways, support these claims. This paper is the outcome of my serious attempt to understand the responsibility of the self, the responsibility of making, and the responsibility towards the made and the other. My attempt started with a careful look at artists Franz West, Jaume Plensa and Luke Jerram, was followed by the careful reading of Camus's The Rebel and other essays, and ended with cautious thinking about the ideas of contemporary popular philosopher Alain de Botton.