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Voice of the Imaination, whole no. 29, January 1944
Page 11
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IMAGI-NATION [underlined] 11 [next to right margin] On the left of the writing, there is a drawing of a naked women with devil horns and fins for feet. She has long hair and a slight smirk on her face. On the left of her, there is small man staring at her nipple saying, in a speech bubble, "Hmmm. That breast complex again." Attached to him is a tag that says "Tucker." Below the drawing is writing that says, "Cartoon..." and the artist's signature. The drawing takes up most of the left side of the page. quality of the drawings the artists submit any more than for the type of letters contributed. And, it being your aim 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 arguements can only apply to those not considered cartoons, since 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 bleong in fantasy art? Am I supposed to offer scientific reasons here, when fantasy itself does not rest on 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 hey may be illustrating) feels that clothing may not always be used in the future of 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 succeeded 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 [underlined]: 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, religion, which seems to have hit the pages of our [underlined] '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 while 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 letters.) I diffintily 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 minus a head and a 38 bullet.
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IMAGI-NATION [underlined] 11 [next to right margin] On the left of the writing, there is a drawing of a naked women with devil horns and fins for feet. She has long hair and a slight smirk on her face. On the left of her, there is small man staring at her nipple saying, in a speech bubble, "Hmmm. That breast complex again." Attached to him is a tag that says "Tucker." Below the drawing is writing that says, "Cartoon..." and the artist's signature. The drawing takes up most of the left side of the page. quality of the drawings the artists submit any more than for the type of letters contributed. And, it being your aim 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 arguements can only apply to those not considered cartoons, since 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 bleong in fantasy art? Am I supposed to offer scientific reasons here, when fantasy itself does not rest on 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 hey may be illustrating) feels that clothing may not always be used in the future of 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 succeeded 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 [underlined]: 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, religion, which seems to have hit the pages of our [underlined] '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 while 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 letters.) I diffintily 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 minus a head and a 38 bullet.
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