We continue our conversation around art and whether or not you can separate art from the artist. This week we take the position that you can separate art from the artist and look at some of the logic behind the position. 

We explore the concept that literary critic, Rowland Barthes argues in his essay "The Death of the Author" in which he argues that once a piece of art is created, the ownership of assigning meaning to it is released from the author and belongs to the reader, or the audience.