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by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) dorothy stimson bullit was the daughter of northwest lumber and real-estate magnate c.d.stimson and the widow of kentucky politico (and FDR pal), a. scott bullit. in the mid 1940’s, the newly single heiress/tycoon looked around … Continue reading
herzog and disavowal: images of knowing and unknowing
Lately, there has been a wave of interest in early color photography which at the time was shunned in the art world. Everything had to be black and white a la Joseph Stieglitz. But, there has been an awakened interest. … Continue reading
drifting through L.A.
Draw is it pleases you. Back to the hub of a massive American trash culture wheel…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Southern California – especially Los Angeles – is the great under-rated stew pot of American popular culture. Sure, the folks who … Continue reading
owsley bear :looking for habitats of unreason
A justifiable flight from reason? I human life inevitably alienating? At a very base and primal level does this alienation and its pathological impulse to dominate make an easy excuse to justify exploitation and thus rationalize our present societal structure?Was … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bruce Eisner, Charles Reich, Eisner, Erich Fromm, J.W. Waterhouse, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jeffrey Mishlove, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, R.D. Laing, Theodore Roszak, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walt Disney, Watteau
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alienating and liberating
The art of Hollywood, or really the business of Hollywood is to dumb and trivialize any critical currents into marketable product. Absorption and coop-tion skills that dumb everything down into cheap neutral entertainment where meaningful content is parceled into bite-sized … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bernays, Bernie Madoff, Charles Baudelaire, Charlie Chaplin, Christopher Rollason, Donald Kuspit, Edward Bernays, Eisenstein, Esther Leslie, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Vallen, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Sergei Eisenstein, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire, Walt Disney, Walter Benjamin
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distorting mirrors: freaks of mechanical reincarnation
Was Otto Dix first and foremost a critic of capitalism? A critic through the bias of the industrial/military/cultural complex that was the beast carrying the burden of material comfort for the lambs. He made sermons without preaching and an artistic … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Billy Bishop, Donald Kuspit, Edward Bernays, German Expressionism, Gilles Deleuze, Guy Debord, hemingway, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Mark Vallen, Marshall McCluhan, Marshall McLuhan, Michael Brenson, Otto Dix, Paul Maizer, Pierre Schaeffer, Roger Scruton, Theodor Adorno, Walt Disney, Walter Benjamin, Walter Lippman
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recycling plastic fantastic : less than zero
There is no question that gender and sexuality are the principal dynamics that underpin all modern marketing. This portrayal, the first division, the first cut of the economic and social pie, though ostensibly comic, even droll, is in fact ideological … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Allen G. Johnson, Amanda Amundson, Amanda Marcotte, Anita Sarkeesian, Coca Cola Sexist advertising, Cynthia Peters, Henry Jenkins, Huffington Post, Kate Harding, Kathryn Perera, Leonard Cohen, Naomi Klein, Naomi Klein Shock Doctrine, Paromita Vohra, sexist advertising, Sofia Coppola, Theodor Adorno, Walt Disney, Walter Benjamin
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GRIMM TERRORS: PASSION FOR THE PRIMITIVE
“The consonants of primitive Germanic keep consistently to the same mouth areas as the corresponding consonants in the older Indo-European languages”. So said the Brothers Grimm in stating their famous law for linguists. Dull fellows? Hardly. Their terrifying tales have … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arthur Rackham, Beethoven, Brothers Grimm, Byron, Charles Darwin, Clemens Bretano, Coleridge, David Hockney, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Keats, Keats, Lord Byron, Margaret Hunt, Peter Webb, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, W.H. Auden, Walt Disney, Wilhelm Grimm, William Wordsworth
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