translation of Book of Mormon

We now know that Joseph Smith used a seer stone put inside a hat, to
which he then placed his face, to translate, at least in part, the
golden plates into the Book of Mormon.  The typical Mormon depiction
of Joseph and Oliver sitting at a table separated by a curtain, with
Joseph studying the gold plates on one side and Oliver dutifully
writing down what Smith said to him on the other, is fiction.  I
suppose it is entirely plausible that this was God's way of bringing
forth the Book of Mormon; nothing about this necessarily calls to mind
the occult.  Still, why do most Mormons appear not to know this?  Why
does Mormon art continues to depict the fictional view?

Curt