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Category Archives: Madame Pickwick Weekend
alien seeding
by Art Chantry: my old friend, wilum pugmire, has recently emerged on facebook as an interesting presence. long an h.p. lovecraft admirer and weird fiction writer in the lovecraft tradition, he has begun a great deal of readings online and … Continue reading
taking a trip with granny
by Art Chantry: back in 1966-67, just as the whole “swinging london” scene that peaked with the carnaby sleek mod/fashion scene, the whole thing began to shift. in amercia, teenage pop fashion had started to go psychedelic very quickly. you … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, eric clapton, Granny Takes a Trip Carnaby Street, Jean Harlow, Jimi Hendrix, Let it Rock boutique, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malcolm McLaren, Michael English, Nigel Waymouth, Nigel Waymouth OZ, Nigel Waymouth The Living Theatre, Nigel Weymouth, Paul Gorman, Punk rock movement history, Sheila Cohen, Swinging London, The Purple Gang, The Rolling Stones satanic majesties request, Vivien Westwood Let It Rock boutique
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transfer agreements
Its the superficial liberal values; essentially reinforcing and continuing the template that was started in the 1930′s with the Transfer Agreement worked out with the early Zionists and the Nazis that brought out 70,000 of the richest German jews to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Arlozoroff transfer agreement, eichmann trial, Ezer Weizmann, Gideon Levy, Goldstone report, Hannah Arendt, Herzl, israel occupation, Israeli Apartheid Week, Jennifer Peyto, Konrad Adenauer, Martin Heidegger, Miko Peled, Moshe Zimmerman, paul schutzer, Rolf Vogel, The Six Day War, Tom Segev, Transfer Agreement Israel, Zionist movement
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moods of modernism… berlin to the bayou
Post war American movies were locked into a pattern that began when Shirley Temple saved Hollywood studios from completely going under and were “rescued” by Morgan and Rockefeller money and then the post WWII era saw the norm being movies … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Hathway, James Agee, Janice Loeb, Lloyd Nolan, Louis de Rochemont, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Flaherty, shirley temple, Sidney Meyer, Sidney Meyers
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dopey banker
What we have come to see over the past decade, culminating in the financial collapse is a new breed of banker: utterly unprincipled, ruthless and abrasive. You have to wonder if Greg Smith’s life is an episode, a subtle portrayal … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged cornel west, greg smith goldman sachs, greg smith resignation, Hieronymous Bosch, jamie kastner, jean-marc moutout, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Slavoj Zizek, T.S. Eliot, the dopey cowboy
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examining the cracks
Play as an irrational pre-cultural activity. Fairytales have profound psychological meanings. Or so though Helen Levitt. In Europe, Mussolini was washing the Italian public through a cinematic industry that would gouge out the real for the most kitschy dog-show nonsense … Continue reading
gardens of magnificence
We have no idea what the Garden of Eden resembled. Painters have generally rendered it as a flowering green background to highlight Eve’s white nakedness. What we do know is that humanity from the start has delighted in gardens. In … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Andre Le Notre, francis bacon on gardens, Francois Boucher, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis XIV, Louis XIV Sun King, Moliere, Nicolas Poussin, renaissance gardens, Sir Francis Bacon, thomas traherne
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wild bauhaus bohemians: mechanical paradise
A “house for building” is what Walter Gropius called the new school he founded in Germany in 1919. But the Bauhaus was much more than its modest name implies: it was a force that changed the shape of the modern … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged anna freud, Clement Greenberg, georg muche, joost schmidt, Josef Albers, Kurt Weill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, Mies van der Rohe, oskar schlemmer, Paul Klee, Thomas Mann, ulrike muller, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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