Art and the Artist: Are They Inseparable?
As an ardent Kanye West fan, I’ve wrestled with this question more than most. From his 2005 declaration, ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people,’ which challenged political injustices, to his later, widely criticised, anti-Semitic remarks, Kanye’s music still resonates with me. Am I wrong for this? Is it ever possible to separate the art from the artist? And if so, should we?
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