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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 29, January 1944
Page 11
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IMAGI-NATION 11 [[illustration text]] HMMM THAT BREAST COMPLEX AGAIN TUCKER XENO LEZ Cartoon[[?]] by T.[[I??]]Van. 43 [[end illustration text]] quality of the drawings the artists submit any more than for the type of letters contributed. And, it being your aim to attempt to present a cross section of fandom, you must take what comes. I suggest that you backfire a bit on the discussion by publishing a plea to the artists to submit better material. Then comes the question of artistic values. First, are nudes artistic? If you don't know, look in some art gallery sometime. Second, are the vomnudes artistic? This arguments can only apply to those not considered cartoons, since cartoons have a different purpose than pure art. In answer to the question, I would say yes, in so far as they are amateur attempts which tho perhaps not reaching pro standards, much less the higher aesthetic standards, are still strivings after beauty. Third, do nudes belong in fantasy art? Am I supposed to offer scientific reasons here, when fantasy itself does not rest of a scientific basis? I will only say that whether or not they belong there or not (and who is to decide that but the artist?) nudes certainly have occupied a major place in the works of most leading fantasy artists, and, but for Postal regulations and such, their place would have been even greater. I might add that nude drawings have a place in stfal art whenever the artist (or the author of the yarn he may be illustrating) feels that clothing may not always be used int he future or on other worlds. Fourth, do fanudes (vomnudes particularly) meet the standards of fantasy art? Here, I contend, the decision is between the talent of the artist and the severity of the critic. And we all know what stern judges fancritics love to be. Perhaps a certain biblical platitude would be appropriate here. Anyhow, I do not hope to have suceeded in fankind's rambling discussion on nudrawings to an early close, for the discussion will probably go on as long as Vom and fandom survive. P.S. Don't you really think paragraphing adds sp ,icj tp a"earamce, as well as setting off the writers thoughts properly, for which purpose he used the paragraphs in the first place? (Subtle hint.) RUSSELLLL WILSEY of 87-22 - 252 St, Bellerose, NY/NY, debuts with these views: Boy, are you getting nudesy. Personal, I don't object to them in the least, not in an unclean lite but I do object to some of the monstrousities ( Gad what spelling) which you try to put over on some of the fans, uh. Of course, I have to watch out that my parents don't see it and get the idea that fans dote on such stuff. They are pretty liberal-minded, but their conception of fans is bad enough as it is. " As to the present fad, religon, which seems to have hit the pages of our 'good book'. (Here I would like to digress a moment and explain my use of the word 'fad'. It seems that the intellectual genius of Vom pick up some subject laying around, kick it around awhile untill they got tired, and they try to find something else. First there was the cause of science-fiction, then smoking girls, nudes, and now religion. By the way, as long as we are on the subject of vices, has any body mentioned cursing? That should be worth a few hot letter.) I definitely don't think that children should be brought up with no idea of God. A man must have some faith in something outside of himself. After all, without the Church a lot of people would be minuss a head and a 38 bullet.
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IMAGI-NATION 11 [[illustration text]] HMMM THAT BREAST COMPLEX AGAIN TUCKER XENO LEZ Cartoon[[?]] by T.[[I??]]Van. 43 [[end illustration text]] quality of the drawings the artists submit any more than for the type of letters contributed. And, it being your aim to attempt to present a cross section of fandom, you must take what comes. I suggest that you backfire a bit on the discussion by publishing a plea to the artists to submit better material. Then comes the question of artistic values. First, are nudes artistic? If you don't know, look in some art gallery sometime. Second, are the vomnudes artistic? This arguments can only apply to those not considered cartoons, since cartoons have a different purpose than pure art. In answer to the question, I would say yes, in so far as they are amateur attempts which tho perhaps not reaching pro standards, much less the higher aesthetic standards, are still strivings after beauty. Third, do nudes belong in fantasy art? Am I supposed to offer scientific reasons here, when fantasy itself does not rest of a scientific basis? I will only say that whether or not they belong there or not (and who is to decide that but the artist?) nudes certainly have occupied a major place in the works of most leading fantasy artists, and, but for Postal regulations and such, their place would have been even greater. I might add that nude drawings have a place in stfal art whenever the artist (or the author of the yarn he may be illustrating) feels that clothing may not always be used int he future or on other worlds. Fourth, do fanudes (vomnudes particularly) meet the standards of fantasy art? Here, I contend, the decision is between the talent of the artist and the severity of the critic. And we all know what stern judges fancritics love to be. Perhaps a certain biblical platitude would be appropriate here. Anyhow, I do not hope to have suceeded in fankind's rambling discussion on nudrawings to an early close, for the discussion will probably go on as long as Vom and fandom survive. P.S. Don't you really think paragraphing adds sp ,icj tp a"earamce, as well as setting off the writers thoughts properly, for which purpose he used the paragraphs in the first place? (Subtle hint.) RUSSELLLL WILSEY of 87-22 - 252 St, Bellerose, NY/NY, debuts with these views: Boy, are you getting nudesy. Personal, I don't object to them in the least, not in an unclean lite but I do object to some of the monstrousities ( Gad what spelling) which you try to put over on some of the fans, uh. Of course, I have to watch out that my parents don't see it and get the idea that fans dote on such stuff. They are pretty liberal-minded, but their conception of fans is bad enough as it is. " As to the present fad, religon, which seems to have hit the pages of our 'good book'. (Here I would like to digress a moment and explain my use of the word 'fad'. It seems that the intellectual genius of Vom pick up some subject laying around, kick it around awhile untill they got tired, and they try to find something else. First there was the cause of science-fiction, then smoking girls, nudes, and now religion. By the way, as long as we are on the subject of vices, has any body mentioned cursing? That should be worth a few hot letter.) I definitely don't think that children should be brought up with no idea of God. A man must have some faith in something outside of himself. After all, without the Church a lot of people would be minuss a head and a 38 bullet.
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