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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
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 10:41:59 1985
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References: <3362@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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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!