🤔 it is an interesting question... i think it differs from one discipline to another.
posters talk about actor Crosby. when you see his work, you see the man, they are inseperable. he is a convicted abuser, i assume the conviction was fair, so when you look at a performance, you are seeing the abuser. it is difficult not to think of his victims.
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helenS refers to Richard Wagner. it is easier in his case to separate the music from the "philosophy". his undoubted musical genius can be appreciated without in any way endorsing his nazi views.
many who have produced what we recognise as great art were/are not great people. alcoholics, abusers, thieves, murderers. we should not devalue the art as a way to condemn the artist. it is the crudest form of virtue signalling. a retrospective deplatforming designed only to make the deplatformer feel good.
great works of art, be they paintings, sculptures, music, literature, express a value in humankind, not just in the artist, through their shared recognition. devaluing a body of work because the artist was flawed, is devaluing ourselves, denying our ability to judge art and artist as different entities.
