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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/01/moral-conundrums-and-political-passions
In past writing on Balthus, I’ve insisted on his hebephilia, countering the long and enabling piety of art people who have endorsed his pretensions to aristocratic nobility and spiritual mysticism. (The default defensive malarkey is that those who see sex in the art have dirty minds.) My intent was corrective. Now I find myself at the other pole of my ambivalence, affirming the work’s aesthetic excellence and historical importance, for what that’s worth, in an argument about the proper physical disposition and critical framing of “Thérèse Dreaming.”
The moral and the aesthetic are fundamentally opposed mental exercises—as Balthus demonstrates, and exploits, with cynical panache.
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