I was writing yesterday about the relationship between the iconographer and the Church. I think that the nature of the role of artists and audience is much like this. Some hold that art is beyond all moral or ethical consideration--Yeats, Blake, and Pushkin come to mind. Oscar Wilde once wrote, "There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all." I cannot agree, however.

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