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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8719147" data-attributes="member: 18182"><p>Shakespeare was popular in his day, and also not considered high art, despite audiences with the queen. Dragonlance books are popular today and read by many, yet still looked down upon as not-serious literature.</p><p></p><p>Quality, popularity, and assumptions of the worthiness of art are all independent factors.</p><p></p><p>Beavis & Butthead are great examples. Super popular in their day, currently making a comeback, probably made MTV a lot of money . . . but not considered quality or high art by many. Some folks reject B&B because it is an animated show, and cartoons are for kids and dopeheads. Others because of the crass humor and deliberately ugly artistic style. Personally, I can't stand B&B because . . . well, I don't know, I just don't care for it. But I'm not going to try and convince folks its a part of a genre that, by its nature, is of lesser quality than other types of TV shows.</p><p></p><p>Authors write work-for-hire novels (or comics, or movies) for all sorts of reasons. One of those could be cash over passion, sure. But it's not the only reason, and passion can definitely be involved. A lot of the folks who work on D&D, the game, the comics, and the novels, are very passionate about D&D. Or Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, or any other franchise shared-universe fiction. Work-for-hire does not equate to a lack of passion or a lack of quality. Stanley Kubrick's comments on the Marvel movies is the same type of elitist arrogance towards art we're talking about here.</p><p></p><p>Books certainly can and do have intended audiences, and reviews do well to try and point that out, sure. But again, not a function of quality or <em>grading-on-a-curve</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 8719147, member: 18182"] Shakespeare was popular in his day, and also not considered high art, despite audiences with the queen. Dragonlance books are popular today and read by many, yet still looked down upon as not-serious literature. Quality, popularity, and assumptions of the worthiness of art are all independent factors. Beavis & Butthead are great examples. Super popular in their day, currently making a comeback, probably made MTV a lot of money . . . but not considered quality or high art by many. Some folks reject B&B because it is an animated show, and cartoons are for kids and dopeheads. Others because of the crass humor and deliberately ugly artistic style. Personally, I can't stand B&B because . . . well, I don't know, I just don't care for it. But I'm not going to try and convince folks its a part of a genre that, by its nature, is of lesser quality than other types of TV shows. Authors write work-for-hire novels (or comics, or movies) for all sorts of reasons. One of those could be cash over passion, sure. But it's not the only reason, and passion can definitely be involved. A lot of the folks who work on D&D, the game, the comics, and the novels, are very passionate about D&D. Or Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, or any other franchise shared-universe fiction. Work-for-hire does not equate to a lack of passion or a lack of quality. Stanley Kubrick's comments on the Marvel movies is the same type of elitist arrogance towards art we're talking about here. Books certainly can and do have intended audiences, and reviews do well to try and point that out, sure. But again, not a function of quality or [I]grading-on-a-curve[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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