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redondo speech
Meme mash-up that incorporates the poetry of Pete Brown, Patti Smith and that inner you yearning to break-out and expand the limits of the universe. All in the good name of Madame Pickwick. Is it intrinsic, does it appear to … Continue reading
tugs of war
To recoil from the tired shape. Form and anti-form collide, tugging from opposite sides at the drama of naturalistic illusion. The urge to engage in the shattering of shape. And never shall the twain be twined again. Excuse us for … Continue reading
Brecht: don’t look back
Somewhat shakily, tottering, revelation and the spiritual in art managed to survive intact after being banged around from the forces of the new objectivity.It is an absurd state of mind Brecht was latching onto to express alienation in a form … Continue reading
hannah and her whispers
A relationship of power and violence and how they are inversely proportional. Or so said Hannah Arendt which could well constitute a pillar in her own inversely proportional posthumous power and the violence that has fed on her words thorugh … Continue reading
grammatical fears? try the fold-in method
The phrases “literary inhibitions” and “grammatical fears” are revealing as a sort of post-modern aesthetic that had their roots particularly in the jargon and anti-language of the Beat poets and writing as a performance art. in their crude way they … Continue reading
sleeping in comfort: gracious living
Such a disconnect between the bright, optimistic and shiny marketing image of Ikea and the reality of slave labor production; all those earnest and evolved Swedes, post-Bergman’s, meticulously laying the framework for a do-it-yourself assembly post modern aesthetic of cheap … Continue reading
romancing the joan
The trial and execution of Joan of Arc was just the beginning for the poor soul. In the centuries since the Maid has continued to provoke anger and awe, becoming a symbol for monarchists, romantics, Left and Right… Another movement … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alphonse de Lamartine, Andre Dahl, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Bertolt Brecht, Brecht Saint Joan of the Stockyards, Fremiet sculptor, Friedrich Schiller, George W. Joy, Hermann Anton Stilke, Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc The Maid, Jules Quicherat, Landor, Michelet Histoire de France, Perceval de Cagny, Southey, Tchaikovsky, Thomas De Quincey
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weill done: a weill deal
by Art Chantry: one thing i’ve taught myself to do while thrifting is to always ALWAYS dig through old stashes of classical records. i used to skip over classical records when i found them at yard sales and thrift store … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged art chantry, Bertolt Brecht, Frasconi, Ivan Chermayeff, Joseph Albers, Kurt Weill, lotte lenya, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mario Lanza, Milton Glaser, Neil S. Fujita, push pin studios, Richard M. Powers, Richard Powers, robert brownjohn, Searle, seymour chwast
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garibaldi : romance for the authentic
They don’t make them like that anymore. He was one of the first stars of the media age of mass produced and disseminated images. it was the beginning of celebrity as the basis for our communal lives; the most significant … Continue reading