Tag Archives: Jean Cocteau

who can like the highlands?

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Dave

Or so asked Dr. Johnson after James Boswell had dragged him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour. … Among the arts of life, Jean Cocteau once … Continue reading →

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bohemia on central park west

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Dave

Art mirrored life and vice-versa in painter John Koch’s polished household, a milieu that was as far from a traditional garret as one could get… About eighty New York  blocks separated the sumptuously appointed fourteen-room apartment of the painter John … Continue reading →

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everything is broken

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Dave

Narrative momentum. The very element lacking in our daily life. Are sort seems to be what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics” ; making new out of the scrap heap of discard, an early perception of appropriation and genre bending that … Continue reading →

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between five and six: cruising with the marquise

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Dave

The Marquise Went Out at Five. Claude Mauriac put together a fine conception, worked out with a skill that few novelists have the patience or the delicacy to apply.This concept of time that knows neither past, present nor future and … Continue reading →

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artful banker

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Dave

David Rockefeller’s buying program at the Chase Manhattan Bank made it the greatest corporate patron of art, and started the game of corporate art collecting. It was the thing to do if you were a big blue chip American businessman … Continue reading →

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human oh too human

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Dave

A funny and peculiar war it was. Especially in wartime Vichy Paris which stretched the lexicon of all the imaginative permutations that plumbed the bottom of French culture. The complexities of that particular context were splendidly shrewd and also quite … Continue reading →

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max has wings

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Dave

Its such a weird story and Picasso was such a cowardly figure. The myth of the great resistor is bunk. How di he get to paint so prodigiously during the war with the finest materials available? Max Jacob knew the … Continue reading →

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melancholy scribbles and drips: one dribble at a line

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Dave

Mere doodling of only psychological interest? Even then. After its initial surge of authenticity could abstract expressionism be sustained? The mendaciousness of the art industry to hype this style knew no bounds. Like Marcel Duchamp asserting that everyone is an … Continue reading →

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dislocation : journals of the anti-saint

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Dave

Disturbing. Jean Genet is Downright terrifying. A dark star. A solitude and shimmering of a black star. …Outside select literary circles, Genet is today an almost-forgotten writer, so it’s probably appropriate not only to consider the “last Genet,” but also … Continue reading →

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the dream of the idea: fantasy behind the illusion

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Art

It was a time when the world was going terribly wrong. A look at the art of A.M. Cassandre…. by Art Chantry( art@artchantry.com) : This is the cover of Harper’s Bazaar, September 15th, 1939. the cover is by A.M. Cassandre. … Continue reading →

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