[New-Poetry] beauty

[Bob Grumman]

Mark Weiss wrote:
> I'd guess you didn't read the article, Anny, and I'm not suggesting 
> you do. Among the works he cites as deliberately anti-beauty is Berg's 
> Lulu, which I think extravagantly beautiful, though it's about a girl 
> of questionable morals. What he's really advocating, from a 
> barely-concealed conservative Christian position, is 
> beauty-as-sweetness, as opposed to art that makes one uncomfortable 
> enough to question. That, and he doesn't conceal his dislike of 
> abstraction--beauty is for him about depiction of "reality." So much 
> for Rothko.
And there's the idiocy: he's not calling for beauty, he's calling for 
/his/ kind of beauty.  That's okay with me although it's extremely not 
my kind of beauty (in most cases) but he shouldn't call it beauty.

--Bob
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