A little art?

I'm not asking for much. I just want to read art, in genre. Other than tolkien. What I see on the shelves passing for genre right now is most definitely not art. At best, it's genre excrement.

I'm tired of the same stories, told in the same way. And the next time I see, "with a twist you'll never see coming," I'm going to scream bloody murder. The reason you never see it coming? BECAUSE THE AUTHOR CAN'T EFFING WRITE.

I don't want to read a badly done re-hash of LoTR, minus all of the details that make the story come alive. (THIS MEANS YOU FANTASY WRITERS!) And science fiction? Oh get real. Implausible-Science, Brain-Dead-Fiction. SCREW CHARACTERS, SWISS CHEESE FOR PLOT... WE HAVE SPACE ACTION! It was great in the 30s. I'll even say we had some fun stuff in the 50s. Now? Drivel and Dreck.

Is it HONESTLY too much to ask for ART?! Of course, given the state of much of the popular art these days... perhaps that's the wrong plea.

Maybe a better request would be to ask to be intrigued. Entertainment I don't need, but ideas and inspirations... now those are worth spending my money on. I'll gladly fork over money to Neil Gaiman (especially for the two-volume hardcover sandman editions...) I appreciate his work. I just wish there were more like him, in genre. I can read his work over and again, and it never fails to change me.

That is very rare, and very precious to me.