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Category Archives: Feature Article
poof and gone
by Art Chantry: this is a random selection (grabbed off the top of a pile of hundreds) of estrus records 45 covers i did for dave crider at estrus records. right now dave is reissuing some of his catalog through … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, dave crider, dave crider estrus records, DIY rock, estrus records, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mettalic pms inks, The Gimmicks Estrus, The Hellacopters Estrus, The Insomniacs Estrus, The Makers Estrus, The Ray-Ons Estrus, The Volcanos Estrus
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thebaid
Monasticism at its most simple and essential level. At the time of the Thebaid, the Levant was sprinkled generously with ascetic extremists, the types who immured themselves in caves, those that wore theit time away in prayer and meditation and … Continue reading
peeping thomas and the organ grinding sultan
The comings and goings in the Grand Seraglio would make a Dostoevsky novel look like a child’s short story. No, call this Persian Goth mixed with a surreal world that was so over the top so as to seem like … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Gentile Bellini, Jean Claude Flechet, Jean Leon Gerome, John Mole, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III, Queen Elizabeth Ottoman Empire, Thomas Dallam, William Harborne
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a motionless world of time between
Jean Jacques Rousseau and his Noble Savage. The supposed “enlightened” thinking, of liberal democratic godfathers like David Hume and Immanuel Kant filled with racist delusions. At the opposing spectrum is a Martin Heidegger and the counter-enlightenment which was basically philosophic … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Ballet Africain, Cameroon native dancing, chad native dancing, David Hume, Don Ulloa, emmanuel faye, Hannah Arendt, ivory coast native dancing, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Michel Huet, Montesquieu, sudan native dancing, west cameroon independence
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everything must go
That entire cultures could be formed on the basis of hated, or villainization seems almost too absurd to be possible. As the Arab Spring revealed, the whole phony nature of restricting civil rights, outright repression was based on the phony … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged art chantry, Danny Simon Knesset, Francis Galton, Golda Meir, Israel Shamir, john carpenter director, Kach Party, kahanism, Martin Heidegger, Mk Anastassia Michaeli, MK Danny Danon, Nissim Zeev, Norman Finkelstein, Nuremberg Laws, Peter Bergson, Rabbi Meir Kahane, Richard Millett, Social Darwinism, Stanley Fischer, Stanley Milgram, Thorstein Veblen
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plastic pre-Ono Spaniard
by Art Chantry: if we know the name ‘robert freeman’ it’s because of his photos he took of the beatles from the years 1963-66, when he was essentially their house photographer. his images of the early “fab four” are the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, John Lennon, John Lennon Spaniard, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Freeman design, Robert Freeman photography, Robert Freeman photography Beatles, spike milligan, spike milligan puckoon, The Beatles 1963-1966
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royal etiquette: eye of the Sultan
His Majesty’s seamy service.Throne Room Without and Within. Modern Turkish history contains much to be proud of, but it was preceded by a long and unbroken seamy past of plots hatched and destinies decided within the walls of the Grand … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Ahmed I and Mustafa, Anton Hickel, Charles II England, Grand Seraglio Istanbul, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Baltimore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Murad III Sultan, Mustafa the cage, Selim III sultan
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rocks of ages and sages
The rock monasteries of Cappadocia. In the days of Byzantium, monks turned weird rock cones into a city of cells and churches. It was part of central Turkey and a volcano buried the country-side for forty square miles in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmet Ertug, Buckle Church Cappadocia, Cappadocia churches, Cappadocia Monasteries, Church of the Serpent Cappadocia, Julian the Apostate, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Monasticism history, Saint Gregory of Nanzianus, Saint Jerome, Saint Jerome Vulgate, the anchorites, The Dark Church Cappadocia, the Dendrites, the stylites, the Thebaid
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wild and wooly: oh effendi!
the Turks. The young turks,the old turks, they were all wild; from the quiet tranquility of the garden to the live action slicing and dicing of the human body, there was rarely a dull moment in the Ottoman Turkish empire. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged 10cc sheet music, eric stewart 10cc, Evliya Effendi, Grand Seraglio, Grand Seraglio Istanbul, hatice Muazzez Sultan, Ibrahim Ottoman Sultan, Jean Chartier illustration, Jean Froissart Chronicles, kevin godley, Kiusem Queen Mother Ottoman Sultan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Murad IV Ottoman Sultan, Osman and Mustafa, Ottoman Empire, Siege of Constantinople, Sultan Osman, the 10cc fan club
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