BEER Group Read. Chap 2. Reg Despard, Artist?!

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, so we get from P what a non-group-reader has cited as an homage, a borrowing,
an allusion to a famous Seinfeld show. One he thought better than this book, this take, I guess. 
 
As Reg's film-stealing videos get acclaimed by the Acdademy, we get another savaging of
Candlebow U. For Pynchon just about all academics, in their professional guise, are candlebrow idiots,no?
 
What else here? Another punch at stupid supposed avant-garde art, 
post--modernist 'works of art'?;  a jab at 'documentary', that is, "social realism" "art" that is nothing, in these
times, but reproductions of older works? Back in the Day there was lots of critical discussion about how
the art of these times could not be great if it was simply in the mode of traditional realism, traditional forms, etc.
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