I find it hard to state a consistent position when it comes to artists and their personal behavior/statements. OTOH, I would never attend a Ted Nugent concert because the guy's despicable. OTOH, I have no problem thinking that Chinatown is a great movie (and I was one of the lawyers representing Polanski's victim).
I don't think I can explain why I take those seemingly inconsistent positions. I mean, sure I can argue that there's more value in Chinatown than in Nugent's "music", or that Chinatown got made before the rape. But there are plenty of cases where those kinds of rationales don't help much. I guess that for the most part I'm willing to separate art from the artist but it's always a judgment call for me and I can't really claim strict principle or logic.
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Date: 2017-08-26 01:58 pm (UTC)I don't think I can explain why I take those seemingly inconsistent positions. I mean, sure I can argue that there's more value in Chinatown than in Nugent's "music", or that Chinatown got made before the rape. But there are plenty of cases where those kinds of rationales don't help much. I guess that for the most part I'm willing to separate art from the artist but it's always a judgment call for me and I can't really claim strict principle or logic.