It’s facile to equate appearance with evil | Letters

In his review of the Edinburgh arts festival (The macabre masterpieces that Scottish artists do best, 3 August), Jonathan Jones refers to Douglas Gordon’s self-portrait, Monster, which shows the artist’s face alongside the same face distorted by pieces of Sellotape. Jones evidently assumes that it is the “distorted” face that indicates monstrous evil. I see a face possibly affected by disease or injury. This facile and prejudicial correlation between inner and outer beaut