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Tag Archives: Alfred Jarry
mad men: vanity of night’s hallucinations
He had the conviction that demons had taken hold of him, and a fear of sexuality, which he associated with disease and microbes. He believed he was made of glass and breakable, had a fear of noises and identified with … Continue reading
GUYS and PUPPETS and DOLLS
Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son was the winning entry in the 1965 Eurovision song contest sung by France Gall. The song was filled with Gainsbourg’s trademark double entendres and clever word-play and arrangements. Ironically, Gainsbourg is somewhat hitting the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Charles Baudelaire, Felix Feneon, France Gall, Jane Birkin, Joann Sfar, Kat Gardiner, Pablo Picasso, Pink Martini, Pupulus Mordicus, Serge Gainsbourg, Serge Gainsbourg Melody Nelson
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/b/:LET THEM EAT MARBLE CAKE
We have become accustomed to thinking about 4Chan as the breeding ground for memes as well as shaping the associated cultural reactions to such memes. There are other implications to 4Chan beside the obvious pop culture reading…. Alexis de Toqueville’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Alfred Jarry, Amber Case, Ben Huh, Ben Popper, Billboard Liberation Front, Ceci Moss, Claire Bishop, Cole Stryker, Ctle Gage, Dominick Chen, Gabriella Coleman, Glenn Beck, Henry Jenkins, Jon Kelley BBC, Jude Sheerin, Kayne West, Laura Adams Hot Topic, Lev Grossman, Marcel Duchamp, Marcin Ramocki, Marshall McCluhan, Mary Bale, Nicholas Bourriaud, Peter Burger, Ron English, Whitney Phillips
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BAD SANTAS: CULTURE JAMMING CORPORATE XMA$
What realistic future do you see for billboards? “Most people are now walking billboards, what with all the clothing logos on their togs. I suppose the next frontiers will be inner and outer space. Designer DNA encoded directly onto our … Continue reading
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Tagged Adbusters, Alfred Jarry, Billboard Liberation Front, Bombing Science, D.S.Black, Damien Hirst, Guy Debord, Janet Lee, Jessica Hall, Joey Skaggs, Naomi Klein, Ogden Nash, Phil Knight, Phil Knight Nike, Ron English
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SPIRIT WORLD: Talking With a Famished Lion About Poetry
The French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) pursued an ideal in his quest to capture a spirit of innocence. While still very much rooted in French city life, and for many-years a conventional man, he nevertheless projected images of an exotic … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Searle, Alfred Jarry, Alice B. Toklas, Andre Derain, Arnie Greenberg, Arnold Hauser, Arsene Alexandre, Byron, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Green, Cornelia Stabenow, Dennis Walder, Eugene Delacroix, Felix Auguste-Clement, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gustave Flaubert, Henri Matisse, Henri Rousseau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jill Fell, K. Kimberly King, Marie Laurencin, Max Weber, Nancy Ireson, Nancy Pinard, Pablo Picasso, Pam Rosenthal, Redon, Richard Jinman, Richard Powers, Robert Hughes, Roger Shattuck, Wilhelm Uhde
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TROPICS OF THE MIND: Forgotten Memories of an Ancestral Darkness
His is the simple and yet incredible story of an unworldly petit bourgeois who painted in an introverted, almost autistic manner. He himself cannot have been fully aware of what he was doing; he did not distinguish between his pictures … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Arsene Alexandre, Asperger Syndrome, Camille Pissarro, Charles Baudelaire, Cindy Sherman, Claude Monet, Cornelia Stabenow, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Edmond Frank, Elena L. Grigorenko, Emile Zola, Fernand Leger, Gerhard Richter, Graham Greene, Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Henry Certigny, Jackson Pollock, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jill Fell, Joseph Brummer, Kate Bush, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Nancy Pinard, Odilon Redon, Pam Rosenthal, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Klee, Paul Verlaine, Pierre Loti, Richard Jinman, Richard Powers, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Salvador dali, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Wilhelm Uhde
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RUNNING WITH LIONS:The Enigma of “The Idiot”
For all of them Henri Rousseau was the “venerable child” of art, the great primitive who lived and worked beyond the reach of damaging speculation and sophistication, at one with himself, original, as nature had made him. Conscious, deliberate action … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Allen Ginsberg, Andre Malraux, Andre Salmon, Cornelia Stabenow, Cubism, Dostoevski, Edgar Degas, Fernando Botero, Franz Marc, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giorgio de Chirico, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Max Beckman, Max Beckmann, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Uhde
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ROUSSEAU & THE COUCH IN THE JUNGLE: Landscape of Hallucination
It’s been said, oversimplistically but sympathetically, that “he didn’t know the rules well enough to break them”. But of course there are no rules in the kingdom of the imagination.He knew he was a babe in the woods of high … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Searle, Alfred Jarry, Andre Breton, Arsene Alexandre, August Macke, Christopher Green, Cornelia Stabenow, Douglas Cooper, Emil Nolde, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Roh, Gauguin, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Herbie Hancock, Herschel B. Chipp, Herschel Browning Chipp, Jean Cocteau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jill Fell, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Matisse, Michael Hoog, Montague Ullman, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Klee, Pechstein, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Seurat, Sigmund Freud, Signac, Virginia Chandler, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Uhde
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LISTENING TO THE BACK BEAT
” …and, escorted by two police cars, the group drove to a ball park on the corner of Army Street and Portero Avenue, where they played a game against the Bank of California ‘Nuggets’, to prove to the squares that … Continue reading
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Tagged A.D. Winans, Alfred Jarry, Allan Johnston, Allen Ginsberg, Andre Breton, Arthur Miller, Arthur Rimbaud, Bill Whipp, Bob Kaufman, Bob Margolis, Bob Weir, Charles Baudelaire, David Apfelbaum, Dostoyevsky, Elia Kazan, Eric Big daddy Nord, Ernst Gombrich, gary Snyder, Gerald Nicosia, Gregory Corso, Henry Miller, Herbert Gold, Herbert Huncke, Herman Melville, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, John Clellan Holmes, John Clellon Holmes, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Levi Asher, Lew Welch, Lyle Tollefson, Maggie Reiff, marty matz, Michael McClure, Neal Cassady, Philip Whalen, Podhoretz, Scott Macfarlane, Sigmund Freud, Timothy Leary, Tom Christopher, William Blake
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