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hormonal reality
Its a pretty tenuous stretch of credulity to assert that Elizabeth Taylor is a feminist. She was radically subservient to dominant male culture and all her so-called rebel actions have to be looked at within the context of acceptable behavior … Continue reading
yuppie americana : the edutainment committee
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) A YEAR or so back, maire and I went to washington, DC (the ‘other’ washington). i was there to jury a design show (i seem to remember. some nice stuff, too!) we had an extra day … Continue reading
between the tiny folds: bernie and the beast
The challenge for luxury brand advertisers is to demonstrate they are connected to reality and in tune, a degree of empathy to global welfare. Something other than the transparently self-serving elitists parlaying superficiality into grotesque profits. … This was a … Continue reading
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Tagged antoine arnaud, bernard arnaud, bernie ecclestone, Brilliant Earth, Franz Kafka, hublot watches, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Claude Biver, louis vuitton advertising, louis vuitton core values campaign, Madonna, Marquis de Sade, steven meisel, Tiffany fairtrade gold initiative
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white outlaw: the ties that bind
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation was a book written by Bell Hooks in the mid 1990’s. It seems like an appropriate complementary to Rebel Sell by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter.Hooks gained a certain amount of notoriety for her critique of … Continue reading
bizarre love triangles : black moon rising
Booted out of Paradise? Lilith as the first mistress and well-spring of promiscuity, both real and imagined? There has always been some perplexing inconsistencies in the Old Testament; a kind of lost narrative between the Greek Septuagint, the Dead Sea … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andrew Samuels, Anita Sarkeesian, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dead Sea Scrolls, frank dicksee, Gershom Scholem, Greta Garbo, J.W. Waterhouse, john collier lilith, john collier painter, John Keats, John William Waterhouse, joseph heath, judith plastow, louis ginzberg, Madonna, michael walzer, perle besserman, rabbi jill hammer, rebecca honig friedman, Rick Salutin, Salka Viertel, thomas frank the baffler
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low-fi glamour: incomplete distraction
Stock photography and making “new photos” out of them. More “glamour” ….. by Art Chantry ( Art@artchantry.com) : We’re all familiar with stock photos. Nowadays, most professional photographers know no longer take photos, but make stock images. These photos are … Continue reading
Clouds of celebrity:A fiction somewhere drunk with passion
Dancing with the stars. Celebrity. What price? ……..Celebrity is not the same as being celebrated , but celebrity is often a precondition of being famous.The concept of celebrity as study in itself, as in being a celebrity,is a modern invention, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Andrew McConnell Stott, Bob Dylan, Calvin Klein, Cintra Wilson, J.C. Hobhouse, Janet Whitman, Johanna Schneller, John Cam Hobhouse, John Lennon, Joseph-Denis Odevaere, Lawrence Taylor, Leah McLaren, Lord Byron, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Michael jackson, Pablo Picasso, Pauline Kael, Ralph Lauren, Sophia Coppola, Tiger Woods
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CELEBRITY AS REBELLION TO REASON: An Age of the Enlightened Groupie
The popular culture’s notion that geniuses were crazy certainly received support from the excesses of many of the Romantic artists of the nineteenth century, who had their share of obsessive, manic, and ecstatic behaviors. Further, the “mad scientist” in literature … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andy Warhol, Angelina Jolie, art chantry, Brian Jones The Rolling Stones, Britney Spears, Corot, David Phillips, Emile Zola, Fred Inglis, Gainsborough, Goethe, Handel, Heinrich Heine, Horace Vermet, Horace Vernet, Joshua Reynolds, Madonna, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mark Beech, Martin Rubin, Mary Shelley, Michel Carné, Mozart, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Siddons, Stendhal, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough
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SKULLDUGGERY AND DEATH AS A READY MADE
Damien Hirst’s new show is using skulls of famous French artistic figures who have been disinterred and sent to the Pantheon, the mausoleum of France’s most honored citizens.That is the rumor. He is confronting the existential crisis in Art by … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Searle, Albert Camus, Alexander Calder, Britney Spears, Damien Hirst, Francis Bacon, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Baldessari, John Healy, Julia Spinola, Madonna, Nietzsche, Nobel Prize, Robert Hughes, Stanley Brouwn, Stockhausen, William Osborne, Yves Klein
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