>It's irrelevant. A beautiful desk (theoretically) can have Nazi
>swastikas as a design element (as Riefensthal's rather gorgeous
>films in fact do). It's still beautiful. Do Pound's politics make
>his poems any less beautiful, or Wagner's his music? Of course not. It's silly.
Privileging "beauty" in evaluating or experiencing art is, if not silly, at least problematic, not to mention limiting.