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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

When you can't separate art from artist

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

How to Stop the Monstrousness of Artists

I think it's a very interesting idea that we should not worry too much about the monstrousness of artists and that we should separate biography from art. So how do you respond to that approach? Yeah, I think in the story I just told you, I think the crucial detail is the feelings I had as I tried to watch the film and the unsettled, uncomfortable feeling given what I knew about the biography. That wasn't like a, it's not a willed experience. It was just happening.

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