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On Separating the Art and the Artist

This chapter works through a number of cases featuring well-known musicians and painters—Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Gord Downie, Richard Wagner, Paul Gauguin, Graham Ovenden, and Jackson Pollock—to try to answer the question about when and how artists’ moral character ought to bear upon the ethical and artistic appraisal of their work. The chapter rejects the empiricist view that some aspect of the artist’s character must be manifest in the work, arguing, instead, on the basis of an analogy with virtue ethics, that the ethical status of the artist’s motivation in creating the work is relevant to an appraisal of it.