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looking smart
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) this is what a smart book looks like. new directions paperbacks were throughout the 1950’s, 60’s & 70’s the quintessential image of intelligence. all you had to do was walk around with one tucked under your … Continue reading
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Tagged alvin lustig, alvin lustig design, Andre Gide, art chantry, dover books, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, gilda kuhlman, Herman Hesse, James Agee, james laughlin, Jean Paul Sartre, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nathaniel West, new directions paperbacks, trade paperback books, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, William Saroyan
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from babylon to berlin: endless summer
The universal stream of forms flows on. What Hannah Arendt called the pulse of life, an interminable grinding of contradictions amidst a violent clash of the irreconcilable. How to find meaning in those unpredictable flashes in the space between. A … Continue reading
pataphysics of dead people: recycling the vendors
Advertising does really define our world. In the Western culture of entertainment, advertising assumes the role of both structure and content.We can fake our rage against the machine, but are constantly putting our paws in the cookie jar. The focus … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Billboard Liberation Front, Caravaggio, catherine gudis, craig baldwin, French Situationist, Guy Debord, Herman Hesse, mark dery, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Ralph Nader, Ron English, ronald wayne, Steve Jobs, Theodore Roszak
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the good angels gulp and groan
In general, the notion that Heinrich Heine represented a “wound” became common currency in Germany after 1945, reflecting the German wound of the war and the country’s subsequent division; all interpretations have transformed themselves into a cultural problem and a … Continue reading
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Tagged felix born, Friedrich Schiller, giuseppi mazzini, Goethe, Herman Hesse, Honore Daumier, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Ludwig Boerne, Martin Buber, Otto Dix, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Mann
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alternative community & utopia postponed
The easy explanation for the enduring appeal of Herman Hesse is that he offers hope and romance.There is a pushing back against the seduction of acquisition and competition; the wrestling over scarce resources and the Cain and Abel scenario. Also … Continue reading
unreason: the sound of one hand clapping
The denunciation of reason has always been the reaction of choice since the sunset of the Middle Ages as a general form of criticism; a manner of dealing with its ambiguity, menace and mockery. Unlike madness which could be rationalized … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonin Artaud, Artie Kornfeld, Bill Pester, Francisco Goya, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herman Hesse, J.D. Salinger, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Marquis de Sade, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Michael Lang, Michel Foucault, Neil Armstrong, Owsley Bear Stanley, The Grateful Dead, Timothy Leary, Vincent Van Gogh
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fear of a children’s planet: the customer is kid
Whats always fascinating, often in equal measure, is disturbing. This is particularly so with the use of children in advertising, in art, and in the broader context. At one end of this seamy world, is the Charlie Sheen archetype, that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Bogusky, American Apparel advertising, Charlie Sheen, Coca Cola, Dov Charney, Gottfried Helnwein, Herman Hesse, Johannes Nyholm, Jonathan Hobin, Leah McLaren, Nina maria Kleivan, Peter Simpson, Reza Deghati, Simon Houpt
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THE WEIMAR “LAST TRANCE” CABARET: Escaping to Feed Your Head
For Walter Benjamin, this was the real significance of the First World War, “an attempt at a new and unprecedented commingling with the cosmic powers.” He worried that mankind’s alienation from itself was deepening “to such a degree that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertholt Brecht, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Mayer, David Weigel, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, Glenn Beck, Hans Janowitz, Herman Hesse, John Wonder, Kurt Weill, Lovis Corinth, Marianne Faithfull, Max Beckmann, Mike Huckabee, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Robert Whealy, Robert Wiene, Sen. Jim DeMint, Steven Ozmet, Walter Benjamin, Weimar Republic
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SLEEPWALKING IN WEIMAR: Hypnosis in the Asylum
Quoting Hesse’s Steppenwolf -‘Human life is reduced to hell only when two ages two cultures overlap. Now there are times when a whole generation is caught between two ages with a consequence it looses all power to understand itself and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alban Berg, August Strindberg, Carl Mayer, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, Gottfried-Benn, Hans Janowitz, Herman Hesse, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Robert Weine, Robert Wiene, Seth Taylor, Walter Benjamin
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