Tag Archives: shirley temple

tower of celebrity

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Dave

The tall boy. Robert Wadlow. Drwbacks to being the tallest man in the United States. At age five, he was 5 feet 4 inches, the same height as his mother… Wadlow was a popular student with both his teachers and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Baby LeRoy, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ringling Brothers Circus, Robert Pershing Wadlow, Robert Wadlow, shirley temple, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, World's Tallest Man, World's Tallest People | Leave a comment

hollywood brotherhood: circle the wagons

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Dave

I’s going to make a gobsmack of money. But its total crap.Disposable, forgettable and into the scrapheap of built in obsolescent consumer culture. The genius is how minute decisions are made to respect a violation in the spirit of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bruce Willis Looper, emily blunt, Jeff Daniels Looper, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Looper, Looper movie, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rian Johnson, shirley temple | Leave a comment

moods of modernism… berlin to the bayou

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Dave

Post war American movies were locked into a pattern that began when Shirley Temple saved Hollywood studios from completely going under and were “rescued” by Morgan and Rockefeller money and then the post WWII era saw the norm being movies … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Hathway, James Agee, Janice Loeb, Lloyd Nolan, Louis de Rochemont, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Flaherty, shirley temple, Sidney Meyer, Sidney Meyers | Leave a comment

children being cute

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Dave

Children being cute as a metaphor for superficiality. The new image of the child being born in innocence and the painter to capture that ripe moment of angelic realm before the inevitable gradual tarnishing of the soul. It was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged bartolome esteban murillo, Diego Velazquez, Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, george smith painter, Hermann Hesse, hesse the prodigy, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, murillo spanish painter, Norman Rockwell, Seville Baroque School, shirley temple, Sigmund Freud, Zubaran painter | Leave a comment

sour grapes

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Dave

There is a tendency to romanticize the past; to look back to an earlier epoch in America and the elusive “kindler, gentler America” that is referred to in such reverential tones. Truth is, the past was not so idyllic though … Continue reading →

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the live adventures of norman and normal

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Dave

Norman Rockwell’s paintings are impossible not to recognize.The first inclination is to dismiss his work as kitschy, sentimental drivel of an earlier more naive time, which does tend to pacify our own anxiety by touching the chords of a false … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Al Kooper, Hal Leonard Corporation, John Berg, John Berg CBS, Mike Bloomfield, Norman Rockwell, Norman Rockwell illustrations, shirley temple | Leave a comment

back to stovall’s plantation

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Dave

On the one hand, what could one possibly expect from the entertainment industry. Its “product” serving as the servile public relations arm of the financial/industrial complex. And its been that way since the Hays Code of the 1930′s which coincided … Continue reading →

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rubber stamp of approval

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Dave

To place Franklin Roosevelt’s passion for collecting stamps and to a lesser degree him maritime collection in a meaningful context is not really possible without the backdrop of the depression. He worked on his stamp collection almost to his death. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged cheryl ganz, conrad black f.d. roosevelt, franklin roosevelt stamp collection, harry hopkins, james iredell wadell, james n. miller, minnie astor, President hoover, roosevelt library, shirley temple, smithsonian institute, The Great Depression, william green AFL | Leave a comment

norman conquest

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Dave

The portraying of the mundane and banal, the glorification of the ordinary and a reinforcing of cultural narcissism, the mantle of manifest destiny and the core values of American exceptionalism. Illustrations that endlessly repeated variations of boredom with a hint … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged arnold ernst toht, Donald Kuspit, Meyer Schapiro, Norman Rockwell, norman rockwell gun digest, norman rockwell kellogg, norman rockwell kelloggs, norman rockwell winchester guns, shirley temple, stan vosburg | Leave a comment

brother can you spare a dime?

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Dave

The Great Depression ended in every film. If it ever existed. Yes we could thank Shirley Temple for that. The great template that the American entertainment complex gave us, and keeps on giving us. To learn to love kids, and … Continue reading →