We all have our favourite artists.
Whether they paint, direct, write, perform, act, or all of the above, there are certain types of artists that appeal to us in a way that inspire devotion to their every move in their chosen field.
You don’t necessarily have to like every move they make. Sometimes the artist makes a misstep – a bad album, movie, book, whatever – but it doesn’t necessarily knock them down from the pedestal you had placed them on.
However, sometimes an artists’ misstep can amount to much greater consequences than a bad review. Sometimes the “misstep” is off a cliff.
In recent times the exposing of degenerate acts by prominent figures has become a frequent occurrence. I can think of many highprofile celebs within the last year that have been shown to harbour more sinister desires than their overly friendly face and demeanour would lead you to believe.
Artists are no different. I’m sure the majority watching has discovered something undesirable about their favourite painter, director, writer, actor, or musician, at some point.
But that is when you are led to the ageold question that must be pondered in such a scenario as this: do you separate the art from the artist?
I would have to assume that separating the art from the artists is the more common approach.
But sometimes an artists’ views and/or actions (for good or ill) are so entwined within their work that separating their paintings, movies, books, or albums from themselves is impossible.
And nowhere is separating the art from the artist as impossible to do as it is with the Marquis de Sade, and particularly, in his infamously disturbing tale: The 120 Days of Sodom.

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SOURCES:

1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...
2. https://theconversation.com/marquisd...
3. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...
4. https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...
5. https://www.gale.com/intl/databasese...
6. https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/...
7.    • The Life of a Libertine (Marquis de S...  
8. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19...
9. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...
10. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/bo...

CHAPTERS:

1. The Impure Tale (0:00)
2. The Life of Sade (2:46)
3. The Writings of Sade (10:45)
4. The 120 Days of Sodom (12:47)
5. The End of Sade (21:31)
6. The Impure Tale of the Impure Scroll (23:20)

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