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uhhmm…ommm…and deceptive bends
American popular culture, true to form, has been able to commercialize and monetize Yoga; disengaging it from its Hindu spiritual roots and transforming it into a leisure past-time and hobby where it is placed on the rack or shelf, and … Continue reading
dialogue with the self conscious
From another dimension.A jarring formal disorder smoldering from the juxtaposition of the conscious confronting the self-conscious. The work is not readily definable and there is an admittance on his part that his artistic activity is rooted in boredom. … Friedeberg:I … Continue reading
pataphysics of dead people: recycling the vendors
Advertising does really define our world. In the Western culture of entertainment, advertising assumes the role of both structure and content.We can fake our rage against the machine, but are constantly putting our paws in the cookie jar. The focus … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Billboard Liberation Front, Caravaggio, catherine gudis, craig baldwin, French Situationist, Guy Debord, Herman Hesse, mark dery, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Ralph Nader, Ron English, ronald wayne, Steve Jobs, Theodore Roszak
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hitting like a howitzer…
overdue credit where overdue credit is due…. Art Chantry (art@artcantry.com) Back when sub pop records was still forming, they put together their first full length 12″ record (ep, anyway) and it was for their band, Soundgarden. it was called ‘screaming … Continue reading
the future is behind us: respeaking
“There is no such thing as coincidence. Only opportunity tempered by experience and fueled by ambition.” ( napier) A selective engagement with irrationality.A narrative of private woe and anguish inserted into the impersonal environment.They appear as neither statement nor question. … Continue reading
conan quirks: storytelling as fabric of self-definition
Frazetta, the Conan quirks, self-image and psychology… Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) Frank Frazetta died recently. There were so many tributes to the man that I got a little burned out reading about him. Honestly, I have to say I didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Al Capp, Clint Eastwood, edgar rice burroughs, frank frazetta, harry chester, james warren, John Carter, Li'l Abner, Norman Rockwell, Peter Max, robert e. howard, von dutch, warren publications
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discard after using
the lone gunman theory……. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): This is an object. It’s a Time Magazine cover, torn off the rest of the particular issue. It’s been stored in a three-ring binder for nearly 40 years. I found it at … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged art chantry, boris artzybasheff, lee harvey oswald
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Fiction of celebrity: somewhere drunk with passion
Dancing with the stars. Celebrity. What price? ……..Celebrity is not the same as being celebrated , but celebrity is often a precondition of being famous.The concept of celebrity as study in itself, as in being a celebrity,is a modern invention, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andrew McConnell Stott, Cintra Wilson, J.C. Hobhouse, Janet Whitman, Johanna Schneller, John Cam Hobhouse, Joseph-Denis Odevaere, Lawrence Taylor, Leah McLaren, Marilyn Monroe, Michael jackson, Pauline Kael, Sophia Coppola, Tiger Woods
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approaching perfection: little spots of hurried slop
Cher and design of the times: utterly awful and utterly perfect. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Lately I’ve noticed a lot of Time Magazine covers being displayed in the Facebook™ thread I’ve been reading. A lot of my old pals are displaying … Continue reading