Claire Dederer

The Waterstones Podcast vor 3 Jahren

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It’s an old question but one that seems to be asked with
increasing frequency in the era of so-called cancel culture: can
you separate the art from the artist? After Essayist and
memoir-writer Claire Dederer wrote a viral article about her own
response to Roman Polanski she looked further into the lives and
works of other problematic figures. The result, Monsters, is a
personal and entirely subjective look at creatives like Woody
Allen, Miles Davis, Michael Jackson, Pablo Picasso and more, that
invites the reader to really think about how they feel about the
art they love that comes to be stained in some way. We sat down
to talk about art monsters, creative genius, and self-indictment.