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thrown ups: winning the cultural explosion
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) After the ‘grunge explosion’ died out and the dust settled, there were, in reality, only a very few people who actually became long term successful. the number of actual “millionaires” could be counted on the fingers … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Ben Shahn, charles peterson photography, david stone martin, ed fotheringham, jacob lawrence, love battery, mudhoney piece of cake, nathan gluck, nieman marcus, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, reid miles blue note, the rocket newspaper, the thrown ups
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grape nuts: birth of a nation
grape nuts. marketing waste product to human chickens? There ain’t nobody here but us chickens. I’m o.k. but you’re not o.k. y’know just down there. Create a demand and fill it….. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ): Do you know what … Continue reading
the greasy palm & the invisible hand
The extent to which public private corporations influence the public sphere is seen nowhere better than funding for the arts. One of the latest rows is over BP’s funding of the Tate Modern. Whether its a dispassionate tax write-off, or … Continue reading
every good child deserves favor
There were almost no flickers of sensitivity to the horror. The callous behavior of parents and adults to infants in seventeenth-century England and eighteenth-century France is almost too impossible to appear credible. The women of the poor suckled for a … Continue reading
gold bugs: buried with their booty
Among the allies of the Trojans in their bitter war to save their city were men from the far off land of Thrace. According to Homer, their chariots were laden with silver and gold and their weapons were also of … Continue reading
cry him a river
Varying degrees of madness. A creepy but vulnerable figure escaping his awkward urges with bloodhounds on his trail. It is an intangible sliver of hope. Peter Lorre gives pause for a reflection on the nature of evil, particularly who the … Continue reading
innocence: signs of the normal
Its difficult to doubt that cruelty is a major obsession and obscenity of modern life. The mediatised examples are a running faucet of lurid sensationalism that play on the disquieting tendencies of attraction and repulsion. Leaving aside, the more large-scale … Continue reading
their favorite game
He was considered the most glamorous name in photography and his fusion of commercial and high art brought him controversy, but also redefined fashion photography. It was high-end marketing with a pop sheen to it. Cinema noir with a trace … Continue reading
very strange indeed…as fate would have it
Strange book covers. Do they mirror inner fantasies and do they, in their own way, ward off sordid threatening aspects of modern existence. When containing the perverse under the sign of the normal is pushed to the limit…. Art Chantry … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, fate magazine, frank edwards, harold t. wilkins, harry chester, ivan t. sanderson, john macklin, Strange book covers, U.S. paperback publishing history
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