Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: "Anti-Art" snobbery" Message-ID: <1416@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 10:41:59 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1416 Posted: Fri Aug 23 10:41:59 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 00:34:47 EDT References: <3362@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 33 Summary: Snobbery by any other name... In article <3362@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> kanders@lll-tis-a writes: > >Hooray for Davis Tucker finally taking to task those people who >practice "Anti-art" snobbery -- those who snort with derision at >something which requires you to turn on a 5 Watt bulb over your >head and use a few brain cells. Perhaps this category includes >those people flaming at "awful" DHALGREN ("Gawd, this stuff makes >me *think* -- yukk, give me Edgar Rice Burroughs anyday!"). I think you may be missing the point. Seems to me that people are reacting to the "art snobbery" of Tucker, rather than promoting "anti-art." I stopped reading the Problems postings after they turned from intelligently and carefully thought-out criticism to random name-calling and self-aggrandizing bleating (somewhere around part II). I happened to have enjoyed Dahlgren *and* several Lord of the Rings clones ('though I draw the line at Burroughs :-), and I suspect that the vast majority of SF-Lovers readers, if not SF lovers in general, are equally omnivorous. >Too many ray guns, rocketships, and bug-eyed monsters >makes me afraid my brain will atrophy! > Perhaps, but we have a shining example of what happens to those who read only so-called "artistic" literature. - joel "vo" plutchak {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster P.S. My preferred method of dealing with Tuckeresque postings is to 'n' past the original posting and linger over the inevitable flames. But then again, I only do it that way for my own enjoyment, so it's not an artistically valid thing to do. God, how I wish Art ruled my universe!