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gang that couldn’t shoot straight arrows
Historical revisionism that is clearly not even in the category of the plausible. The capture of Jerusalem by Saladin re-jigged to make it seem like hordes of spear chucking natives from the heart of the jungle, primitive and savage, required … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Balian of Ibelin, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Pope Gregory VII, Robert Onderdonk, Robert Redford, Saladin capture of Jerusalem, Sam Peckinpah, The Alamo Davy Crockett, The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah, Walon Green
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shutting out the dark area
Holding the traumatic moment; gripping it to prevent it from bounding into the realm of the spectacle. The culture of the spectacle, dazzled, doped and duped by its connection to technology where issues are dealt with as another aspect of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged amy winehouse, Andrew Potter, Bruce Nauman, Claude Monet, eino kyla, F.Scott Fitgerald, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Ellul, Leah McLaren, Lucian Freud, paul mccarthy, Robert Redford, Stephen Marche, the great gatsby
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banalities of evil
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) this is such a boring photo. when maire ( mosco) handed me this image (she took the snap), i just looked at it blankly and wondered what the hell it was. it’s absolutely nothing … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Banality of Evil, Edward S. Herman, genesis p. orridge, Hannah Arendt, james mcavoy, jodie foster, john hinkley, lisa peattie, maire mosco, Robert Redford, Ronald Reagan, ronald reagan assassination, Ted Bundy, throbbing gristle, Woody Allen
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tee it up: triple bogey on consumption
Throughout history, people have often been idle, and they have always had holidays. Even in the darkest periods of the Dark Ages, the rich hunted, jousted, sang, danced and made love. The peasants gorged, got drunk and cavorted. Yet, true … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged baggar vance, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, charles lees, che guevara, david allen painting, Dean Martin, earl Woods, F.Scott Fitgerald, Fidel Castro, j.f. abbott, joseph heath, pierre bourdieu, Robert Redford, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Tiger Woods, william inglis
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WHEELS OF FORTUNE & FAME
The bicycle. It doesn’t make smoke, it doesn’t make smog and it never makes a bad picture. In the 1880′s the bicycle was young then; it antedated the automobile by only a few decades. it is hard to believe now, … Continue reading
MR. TAMBOURINE MEN & THE WAR DANCE
The idea of American Manifest Destiny is not exclusive to the mid-eighteenth century, though the period of imperial “Westward Ho!” is one of the more conspicuous symptoms of that deeper, existential malady—the messianic mission to make the world over in … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Abbe Raynal, Adam Smith, Albert Bierstadt, American Indian Wars, American Revolution, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ben Franklin, Bernard Jolibert, Bernard Picart, Christopher Columbus, Conrad Black, Dan Brown, Dan Brown The Lost Symbol, David Williams, Eanger Irving Couse, Edgar Samuel Paxson, Emanuel Leutze, Frederic Remington, French and Indian Wars, George Washington, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Herman Atkins MacNeil, Howard Terpning, Jeff Nall, John Graves Simcoe, John Locke, John Trudell, Keith S. Thomson, Lewis and Clark Expedition, madame Vernet, Marquis de Chastellux, Marquis de Condorcet, Michael T. Lubragge, Randy Newman, Robert Redford, Theodor de Bry, Will Wilkinson, www.willwilkinson.net
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CONFIDENCE MEN:Masquerade, Myth and Art
For the confidence man to find a comfortable home in the heart of American culture, he needed a mask. And humor has often become an intricate part of the disguise. From the Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor in blackface which … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Al Jolson, American Humor: A Study of the national Character, Bob Dylan, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Constance Rourke, Eddie Cantor, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Greil Marcus, Griel Marcus, Hannah Arendt, Henry James, Herman Melville, I'm Not there, Luc Sante, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, The Confidence man, The Invisible Republic, The Old Weird America
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Comfortably Numb Art for Ordinary People
Connected and disconnected. Eccentric, annoying or evil? A clinging emotional dependence? In The Age I’m In, director Kate Champion plays fast and loose with the state of contemporary living,( but its actually timeless obsession with ageing), the tribulations of ageing, the … Continue reading