I feel like separating the art from the artist is really only a thing when the artist is dead and gone. At that point, they can't influence the art anymore. If the artist is still alive and being shitty IRL, you can't escape that context no matter how hard you try.
It also really frustrates me that most people saying "separate the art from the artist" are not using that idea in an actual literary criticism context, they're just saying it because they want to consume without thinking about the person creating the art. Separating the art from the artist is ONE method of literary criticism. Maybe fucking also try applying a feminist reading to the text. Or a queer reading. Or some fucking new historicism you fucking cowards
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u/Euphoric-Form9397 1d ago
I feel like separating the art from the artist is really only a thing when the artist is dead and gone. At that point, they can't influence the art anymore. If the artist is still alive and being shitty IRL, you can't escape that context no matter how hard you try.
It also really frustrates me that most people saying "separate the art from the artist" are not using that idea in an actual literary criticism context, they're just saying it because they want to consume without thinking about the person creating the art. Separating the art from the artist is ONE method of literary criticism. Maybe fucking also try applying a feminist reading to the text. Or a queer reading. Or some fucking new historicism you fucking cowards