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So The Artist Has Misbehaved. Do S/He And The Work Now Have To Disappear?

IDEAS Posted: January 31, 2019 2:01 pm

Lionel Shriver: “For reasons that escape me, artists’ misbehavior now contaminates the fruits of their labors, like the sins of the father being visited upon the sons. So it’s not enough to punish transgressors merely by cutting off the source of their livelihoods, turning them into social outcasts, and truncating their professional futures. You have to destroy their pasts. Having discovered the worst about your fallen idols, you’re duty-­bound to demolish the best about them as well.” – Harper’s

IDEAS Published: 02.19, sj

Read the story in Harper's Published: 02.19, sj

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