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Category Archives: Modern Arts/Craft
color blind testing: buried in the connected dots
by Art Chantry: been looking for one of these for decades. finally found one in a goodwill yesterday (for a buck)! a very cool ‘color blindness’ test book. official name: “pseudo-isochromatic plates for testing color perception”, by the american optical … Continue reading
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Tagged alvin lustig, Alvin Lustig Gentry magazine, american graphic design, American Optical Company, art chantry, color blindness test book, color code test pages, Gentry magazine, Gentry magazine tip-ins, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, pseudo-isochromatic plates
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messages in bottles
by Art Chantry: i still collect bottles. started digging when i was a kid and have probably gone through a few thousand snce then (mostly given away or lost in various changes). i can’t quit them. i think old functional … Continue reading
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Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, bottle collecting, lavendar glass, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meadowsweet Dairy Tacoma, old mason jar collecting, old mason jars, old packaging graphic design, vintage Dr. Pepper glass bottles
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mulberry children in the middle kingdom
The Chinese Communists are not prevented, in the popular view, from inheriting the imperial mantle merely because they lack blue blood. That most rational of sages, Confucius, established 2,500 years ago that nobility depends not on birth or wealth but … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna May Wong, China Cultural Revolution, China Little Red Book, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo, Chuang-tzu Chinese philosopher, Edgar Snow, Jian Ping, Josef von Sternberg, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Marlene Dietrich, Paris Commune 1871, rod stewart, Shanghai Express film, Sun Yat-sen, Susan Cooper Morgan, Travis Banton, Wen Jiabao
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long shadows
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: The Eternal Savage Ace, 1963 Illustration: Roy G. Krenkel (1918-1983) Happy Birthday RGK! Not a household name. Pity. Not for him mind you, nor amongst his peers (among whom he was legend). Nor his admirers—be they … Continue reading
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Tagged al feldstein, al williamson, Bernard Krigstein, bill gaines, Burne Hogarth, Donald Wolheim, edgar rice burroughs, frank frazetta, Franklin Booth, George Bridgman, Harvey Kurtzman, jack davis, jesse marinoff reyes, joe orlando, john severin, johnny craig, Joseph Clement Coll, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, michael Wm Kaluta, Norman Lindsay, reed crandall, robert e. howard, Roy G. Krenkel, wally wood
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sinic-thesia: all quarters of the globe revolve
The ordinary man was conditioned to want edicts- even if they merely told him, as so many of Mao Zedong’s sayings did, to think for yourself, question authority, and weigh carefully the pros and cons of an action before embarking … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol mao Zedong series, Chien Lung, Chien Lung decrees to George III, Chin Ping, Ching Ping, Dennis Bloodworth, Dennis Hopper, Dennis Hopper Mao Zedong, Edgar Snow, European Marxism, Han Kaotsu, Han Kaotsu first Han emperor, Long March to Yenan, Long March to Yenan 1934, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong personality cult, Oliver Stone Nixon, Richard Nixon China, Richard Nixon Mao Zedong, Sun Yat-sen
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heretics and art: unorthodox conceptions
We seem to be living in the age of the heretic. The orthodox Church of heresy.Is the new heresy to accept that there are many rules? Is it a heresy to swim with the tide? Are those “rebels” really actually … Continue reading
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Tagged Certosa di Pavia, Chris Burden, E.H. Gombrich, Edmund Gurney, Edward Gibbon, Eleanor Heartney, Erasmus, Gale Iain, joel-peter witkin, John Vicar, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Paul Rubens, Protestant Reformation, Puritan England, seth godin
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those heretics: searching for the kingdom of saints
Mysticism, whether heretical or not, is often the refuge of defeated radicalism.Messianist German Anabaptists would become pacifist, mystical Mennonites, and the messianic English “Fifth Monarchy Men” would become pacifist, mystical Quakers. The wild millenarians, The Seers; there is no shortage … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albigensian Church, Arnold of Brescia, brenda zlamany, English Fifth Monarchy Men, Joachim of Floris, John Milton, John of Leiden, John Wycliffe, Lollard Revolt, Marcel Duchamp, Mergery Kempe, Peter Waldo, Richard Rolle, Roger Waters Separation Wall, Ruysbroeck, Sami Michael, Steven Plaut, the Umiliati, The Waldenses, Thomas a Kempis
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invocations of better ideals
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Captain America Marvel Comics, January 1976 issue, #193 Illustration: Jack “King” Kirby (1917-1994), pencils, and “Jazzy” John Romita (b. 1930), inks Happy Independence Day! Well, what better way to note July 4th than with Joe Simon … Continue reading
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Tagged Captain America Comics, gene colan, jack king kirby, Jazzy John Romita, jesse marinoff reyes, joe simon, joe simon captain america, john romita, marvel comics, Rossevelt America Isolationist, stan lee, The Avengers Jack Kirby, The Red Skull Jack Kirby
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