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Kolndom Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

integrity=completeness?

What does the word "integrity" mean in the sentence: Government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts?

Does "integrity" mean completeness here?

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In this context, 'integrity' means 'incorruptibility'. Money corrupts. Art that is funded (by the Government or other power bases of wealth) naturally receives more encouragement, acceptance, and cultural promotion than art that is not funded.

— Davkett

  • In this context, 'integrity' means 'incorruptibility'.
  • Money corrupts.
  • Art that is funded (by the Government or other power bases of wealth) naturally receives more encouragement, acceptance, and cultural promotion than art that is not funded.
  • Artists who make art that cannot seem to get funded may be encouraged to conform their artistry to the kind that is more apt to get funded.
  • And even if those artists hold on to their integrity when there is no prospect of being funded, the arts culture itself will be threatened (corrupted) by the limitations imposed on artists by the dictates of wealth and power.
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In this context, 'integrity' means 'incorruptibility'.

Money corrupts. Art that is funded (by the Government or other power bases of wealth) naturally receives more encouragement, acceptance, and cultural promotion than art that is not funded. Artists who make art that cannot seem to get funded may be encouraged to conform their artistry to the kind that is more apt to get funded. And
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I wonder whether it also has a sense of "necessary independence" or "detachment".

(Resonant abstractions are sometimes used without much thought in such contexts.)

MrP
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