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the nifty fifties
Must we be nostalgic about the 1950’s? … …Thus, in the way that people looked and dressed, in the cars that they drove, in the houses that they lived in, and in a myriad of other day-to-day aspects of life, … Continue reading
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Tagged bill haley and the comets, Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody, Ellen Willis, Elvis Presley, Liberace, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Mike Jahn, Patti Page, Perry Como, Teresa Brewer, Those Redheads from Seattle movie
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fifties: hit the _IKE button
…So, in the summer of 1952, when the Republicans nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for President and he at once promised to end the war if elected, millions of Americans, crying, “I like Ike!”, swung onto the Eisenhower bandwagon. The country … Continue reading
the hindsight saga
It was one of Lenin’s more inspired insights that history always has the capacity to surprise. He was thinking mainly of political revolution, for as a revolutionary he had to be optimistic and hopeful in the darkest times in order … Continue reading
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Tagged Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, bill haley and the comets, Christianity origins, chuck berry, Elvis Presley, French Revolution, Hans Janssen microscopes, Jesus The Marriage at Cana, Lenin Communist Manifesto, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marten de Vos painter, Martha Rosler, Robespierre, The vatican History, Zaccharias Janssen
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they’re crazy: collector stories
by Art Chantry: i refuse to be a collector. even though i’m surrounded by clutter and crap, i much prefer to call myself a “gatherer” or even a “hoarder” rather than a “collector.” collectors are nuts. i recently found a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged art chantry, Beggin You The Royal Chessmen, Eddie Fisher, Eddie Fisher 45 RPM's, eddie fisher coke time, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, hispanic vocal group The Royal Chessmen, Jim dawson & steve proper, Jim Dawson author, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manson Family, poppy z. brite, Roman Polanski estate, Steve Parent, Steve Proper author, William Garretson
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elvis: spinning through the sales cycle
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) front cover of slightly used Hackett publishing paperback edition of Bacchae by Euripides (translated with notes by paul woodruff), 1999. i don’t think elvis would have known euripidies if it bit him in the butt.if … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, bacchae by euripides, Elvis Presley, Euripides, hackett publishing, Paul Woodruff
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energized by old world sleaze
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) today it was announced that the last great old-school “guvner of this here warshington state” passed away at the ripe ripe ripe old age of 101! albert d. rosellini was governor of our state from … Continue reading
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Tagged albert d. rosellini, art chantry, col. tom parker, dave beck, democratic governors washington state, Elvis Presley, elvis presley it happened at the world's fair, rosellinini's seattle, Seattle World`s Fair, strippergate rossellini, university of washington medical school, warren g. magnusen, William Randolph Hearst
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has beens: forsaken and forgotten between fetish and fact
Revolutionary potential in the disposable and discarded… Mellamphy:The only ‘historical object’ is the one that has been thrown out,rejected, and exists as a fact (fait accompli) and hence in fact (factually) rather than ‘fact’ or ‘fait’ishly. Its status as ‘has-been’ … Continue reading
mind games:imagining a world without gravity
When the mind makes an object out of a state of consciousness it returns to a complex matrix of the senses, belief and effort, into separate and divided processes. It seems to be the destiny of all seekers to desire … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, annie leibovitz, D.H. Lawrence, Elvis Presley, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Lennon, john lennon imagine, Jordan B. Peterson, May Pang, plastic ono band, ronald de sousa, Yoko Ono
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king of the wood: return to the grove at nemi
In James Frazer’s The Golden Bough, one is caught up in the drama of a dark and sleeping earth warmed into renewed life by the reviving sun, which also seems in the end to symbolize, for author and reader of … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Jung, Elvis Presley, James Frazer, james george frazer, Jim Morrison The Doors, John Lennon, Joseph Campbell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, mary renault, matt rees, Michael jackson, Rudolf Steiner
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