Tag Archives: James Gillray

mullin

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Dave

A bit more on Willard Mullin: Mullin was not only the greatest sports cartoonist of his day, he was also one of the most talented artists ever to work in newspaper comics. His drawings are dynamic and full of energy … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Bill Bernbach, Brooklyn Dodgers, Brooklyn Dodgers mascot, Harvey Kurtzman, James Gillray, Mark Twain, Omaha horse 1935 Kentucky Derby, Thomas Rowlandson, wally wood, Walter O'Malley Brooklyn Dodgers, willard mullin, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

print, borrow and occupy

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Dave

He was called the scoundrel who invented credit. John Law was a Scottish libertine who rescued France from ruin, then ruined her again, by basing prosperity on credit. He gave us a glimpse of the future. It didn’t work then, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged aron kay, Aron Kay the pieman, greg smith goldman sachs, greg smith resignation, James Gillray, John Law, la Duclos actress, Lady Catherine Senor, Lord Banbury, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, occupy wall street, Philippe d'Orleans | Leave a comment

save the mountain for them

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Dave

The origins of anti-Catholicism are lurking at the depths of American consciousness, gnawing away like a conspiracy theory and feeding a sense of paranoia and tribal urges that have little basis in fact, but are convenient valves of release when … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Howard Zinn, James Cone, James Gillray, Marcel Duchamp, Navarro Valls, Rick Salutin, rick santorum, sam cooke, Slavoj Zizek, Stanley Crouch, Thomas Nast, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

lets drink to that

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Dave

The narcissism of small differences. When religion meets politics the poetics of demagoguery can launch a thousand careers. Anti-Catholic sentiment in the New World was an almost original sin of the founding settlers. All that was missing was a blood … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alfred e. smith presidential candidate 1928, Christopher Hitchens, daniel okrent, david goldfield, Graham Greene, Howard Zinn, James Gillray, ken burns prohibition, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, michael sheldon, Prohibition period, rory gallagher, Thomas Nast, Voltaire | Leave a comment

the syrian bride: all in the family

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Dave

It wasn’t because of his dancing ability, or his sexy cinema noir looks, or the jew jokes at the dinner table in which he always forgot the punch-line, or his absolutely ribald yet compelling attempt at yodeling; does she laugh … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Asma Assad, Bashar Al Assad, Gary Cooper, Gottfried Helnwein, Henry Kissinger, James Gillray, Niall Ferguson, Peter Munk Debates, Philip Zimbardo, Syrian President Assad, Thorstein Veblen, Vogue Magazine Asma Assad, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

quiet desperation of prosaic convenience

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Dave

Is it possible to reconcile the classic/romantic divide. To purge the psychological into a product of reason? Can it be avoided that aesthetic purity depends somewhat on the decadent? Well, the concept of soulmates can be pitched out so that … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged aline kominsky, Charles Baudelaire, daniel ludwig, donald b. kuspit, Eugene Delacroix, godley and Creme, Heinrich Heine, Hell Fire Club, ingrid pitt, James Gillray, Marcel Duchamp, Margaret Wente, Norman Rockwell, Robert Crumb, Sir Francis Dashwood | Leave a comment

kingfish on the hustings

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Dave

You have to wonder if this new phenomenon called Americans.select.org is an effort to establish a technocracy rule in the United States, something that Thorstein Veblen felt would be the inevitable consequences of a capitalism as it became increasingly complex … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged american political satire, americanselect, americanselect.org, Constance Rourke, elliott ackerman, future 101 blogspot, Guy Debord, Herman Melville, jackie and dunlap, jackie broyles, James Gillray, john dewey, jonathan shockley, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, mitt romney bain capital, mitt romney new hampshire, Randy Newman, thomas friedman new york times, Thorstein Veblen, travis harmon | Leave a comment

too many dicks not enough jane

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Dave

Its the use of Bertolt Brecht technique of montage imposed on the early style flash-mob style editing of Disney found in Oswald the Rabbit. The process of introducing non-natural elements that have no natural relation to what is being played … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Henry Jenkins, J.J. Grandville, James Gillray, jon stewart, Jonathan McIntosh, Jonathan Swift, Political Remix Videos PRV, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

800,000 words

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Dave

A religion of Jesus or a religion about Jesus…As Jonathan Swift once said, “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” ‎”among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (jesus) … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged James Gillray, john foxe, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, King James I, king james version of the bible, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, michael valpy, pearce carefoote, Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, william tyndale | Leave a comment

charity is the greatest luxury

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Dave

The poverty industry. Reinforcing destitution and economic ruin wherever it plants its well heeled foot. The spin is all about helping the poor reach empowerment. Ending the viscous cycle.But really, as Thorstein Veblen observed over a hundred years ago, most … Continue reading →