Drawing the line: [electronic resource] : what to do with the work of immoral artists from museums to the movies

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서명/저자사항	Drawing the line: [electronic resource]: what to do with the work of immoral artists from museums to the movies / Erich Hatala Matthes.
개인저자	Matthes, Erich, 1984-, author.
발행사항	Oxford: Oxford University Press, [2022]
형태사항	1 online resource
ISBN	9780197537596 0197537596
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Introduction -- Sympathy for the devil : do immoral artists make worse art? -- Complicity and solidarity : is it wrong to enjoy the work of immoral artists? -- Reforming the art world : should immoral artists be "canceled"? -- Love, trust, and betrayal : how should we feel about immoral artists?
요약	"Woody Allen, Kevin Spacey, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., J.K. Rowling, Michael Jackson, Roseanne Barr. Recent years have proven rife with revelations about the misdeeds, objectionable views-and, in some instances, crimes-of popular artists. Spurred in part by the #metoo movement, and given more access than ever thanks to social media and the internet in general, the public has turned an alert and critical eye upon the once-hidden lives of previously cherished entertainers. But what should we members of the public do, think, and feel in response to these artists' actions or the allegations against them? It's a predicament that many of us face: whether it can seem possible to disentangle the deeply unsettled feeling we have toward someone from how we respond to the art they produced. As consumerers of art, and especially as fans, we have a host of tricky moral question to navigate: do the moral lives of artists affect the aesthetic quality of their work? Is it morally permissible for us to engage with or enjoy that work? Should immoral artists and their work be "canceled"? Most of all, can we separate an artist from their art? In Drawing the Line, Erich Hatala Matthes employs the tools of philosophy to offer insight and clarity to the ethical questions that dog us. He argues that it doesn't matter whether we can separate the art from the artist, because we shouldn't. While some dismiss the lives of artists as if they are irrelevant to the artist's work, and others instrumentalize artwork, treating it as nothing more than a political tool, Matthes argues both that the lives of artists can play an important role in shaping our moral and aesthetic relationship to the artworks that we love and that these same artworks offer us powerful resources for grappling with the immorality of their creators. Rather than shunning art made by those who have been canceled, shamed, called out, or even arrested, we should engage with it all the more thoughtfully and learn from the complexity it forces us to confront. Recognizing the moral and aesthetic relationships between art and artist is crucial to determining when and where we should draw the line when good artists do bad things."--Book jacket.
일반주제명	Arts --Moral and ethical aspects. Art and morals. Artists --Conduct of life. Immorality. Art and morals. Arts --Moral and ethical aspects. Immorality.
분류기호(DDC)	175
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