This thesis explores the concept of artistic integrity. A historical foundation for artistic integrity is laid to provide a context within which eight artists' constructions of the concept can be placed. To date, little research has been conducted to discover how artists feel about artistic integrity, despite the fact that the concept is used frequently both in the popular media, and in arts and creative industries policy and research. Secondary research into European Romanticism and the growth of the creative industries traces the complex development of artistic integrity through to contemporary New Zealand. Grounded by an internal-idealist ontology, a subjectivist epistemology, and an interpretive paradigmatic framework, qualitative, semi-structured interviews with eight artists were conducted to investigate how artistic integrity is perceived by those working within the New Zealand arts environment. The multifaceted nature of the history of artistic integrity is mirrored in the complexity of the responses from the artists involved in this research. Key themes to emerge from the analysis of the interview data were the personally constructed and contextual character of artistic integrity, its importance to the artists involved, and its social contestation. However, the opinions offered on these themes were often very different, and occasionally even contradictory. The artists' responses illuminate how differently artistic integrity could be interpreted throughout the creative community, and question the validity of current uses and definitions of the concept. Most importantly, this research provides an opportunity for artists to offer their understandings of artistic integrity, as surely it is artists who should be determining the validity and meaning of their integrity.

Este trabalho investiga como as ideias românticas foram introduzidas na Itália após 1816. Isso é feito através da análise de artigos do periódico milanês Il Conciliatore. Esse jornal literário circulou em Milão de setembro de 1818 a outubro de 1819 e teve entre seus colaboradores Silvio Pellico, Giovanni Berchet, Ermes Visconti entre vários outros. Nosso objetivo é abordar o nosso objeto de estudo em duas perspectivas: nós exploramos o papel de Il Conciliatore como difusor das concepções românticas na Itália e procuramos, através de seus artigos, reconstruir algumas visões históricas contemporâneas ao período da Restauração Italiana. / This work investigates how romantic ideas were introduced in Italy after 1816. It is done through the analysis of articles from the Milanese periodic Il Conciliatore. This literary newspaper circulated in Milan from September 1818 to October 1819, having as its contributors Silvio Pellico, Giovanni Berchet, Ermes Visconti among a lot of others. Our aim is to approach our studying object by two perspectives: we explore Il Conciliatores role in spreading romantic conceptions in Italy and we seek through its articles to reconstruct some historical views contemporary to the Italian Restauration period.

Este trabalho investiga como as ideias românticas foram introduzidas na Itália após 1816. Isso é feito através da análise de artigos do periódico milanês Il Conciliatore. Esse jornal literário circulou em Milão de setembro de 1818 a outubro de 1819 e teve entre seus colaboradores Silvio Pellico, Giovanni Berchet, Ermes Visconti entre vários outros. Nosso objetivo é abordar o nosso objeto de estudo em duas perspectivas: nós exploramos o papel de Il Conciliatore como difusor das concepções românticas na Itália e procuramos, através de seus artigos, reconstruir algumas visões históricas contemporâneas ao período da Restauração Italiana. / This work investigates how romantic ideas were introduced in Italy after 1816. It is done through the analysis of articles from the Milanese periodic Il Conciliatore. This literary newspaper circulated in Milan from September 1818 to October 1819, having as its contributors Silvio Pellico, Giovanni Berchet, Ermes Visconti among a lot of others. Our aim is to approach our studying object by two perspectives: we explore Il Conciliatores role in spreading romantic conceptions in Italy and we seek through its articles to reconstruct some historical views contemporary to the Italian Restauration period.

This rhetorical study applies Clare W. Graves' "Level of Existence" or value systems theory to the English Neo-Classic and Romantic Movements. Graves' framework, which focuses on sacrificial (Tribalistic, Absolutistic, and Sociocentric) systems and expressive (Egocentric, Achievist, and Individualistic) systems~was utilized in analyzing the politics, society, religion, philosophy, and literature of the two periods. The Neo-Classic Period was dominated by sacrificial systems, especially Absolutistic, while the Romantic Movement was dominated by expressive systems, especially Achievist. This thesis suggests that man's cultural development, like his psychological development, appears to evolve in a spiraling, pendular motion between sacrificial and expressive systems.