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beginning with boris

by Art Chantry: in my eternal quest to find the origins of the dreaded “hot rod monster”, i have been reminded (by jordi duro) of this particular image. this ad here is illustrated by boris artzybasheff (from fortune magazine, 1952.) … Continue reading

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They only came out at night

Revisionist history. Is all history revisionism?From John Lukacs’s The Last European War, almost forty years old, but still valuable… After 1941, “the destiny of Europe depended on two extra-European powers, the United States and the Soviet Union- a condition that … Continue reading

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rat finks and cars and kits

by Art Chantry: back in the mid 1960′s, ‘monsters-driving-hotrods” became a huge fad. originally starting life as WW2 nosecone art, it drifted into the racing world throught he displaced WW2 vets and (particularly) through the person of ‘von dutch’, who … Continue reading

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they shall return

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: TIME magazine October 30, 1944 issue Illustration: Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965) Today is Memorial Day. Not merely a day to relax in the backyard and fire up the barbecue, but to remember those who gave service to … Continue reading

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dawn of an old day

The Golden Dawn. It conjures up some weird Kabbalah and esotericism of Aleister Crowley. Actually, it’s Greece’s rebranded Nazi party dressed in the regalia of post modernism. The breakaway white trash segment projecting identity politics and clearly jabbing at the … Continue reading

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going going gone

May 7,1945. The Hitler cover on Time magazine by Boris Artzybasheff. And another anti-Nazi jab among many he created:

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boris the anthropomorphic

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i always thought that guys like basil wolverton were wholly unique weirdos slaving away in their damp basements (tape on glasses, giggling incoherently). i grew up carefully examining wolverton’s crazy insane disturbing drawings (on stickers … Continue reading

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Newsmeek & Time to get a crotch

Time Magazine was at one time a little more relevant than… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Now, THIS is a NEWS magazine cover! it’s the August 20th, 1965, Time Magazine cover covering the Watts riots (as they eventually came to be called). … Continue reading

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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

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