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Should We Separate the Art From the Artist?

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The Art and the Artist

To enjoy the art is not to endorse the artist. To be moved by a pacaso is not to defend mesagony. If i had to forswear every nineteenth century english novel written by a casual anti semite, i wudn't get to read much of anything. So with art, i don't reject shakespeare ind love because its producer, harvey weinstein did horrible, horrible things. I don't cast out jeeves and worcester because p g. was an awful lot of terrible people. But chinatown is a terrific movie. Sometimes we hold our nose and enjoy the best of what remains.

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