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Tag Archives: William Burroughs
ready for an american lenin?
Are we ready for an American Lenin? Or a Mao? Or even a Gandhi? Will “make love not war” ever give way to “make revolution not love”; until then the odds are doubtful… Many people assert that a revolutionary situation … Continue reading
the naked gunslinger
by Art Chantry: wm. burroughs loved guns. he was photographed shooting guns so many times that it was a standard deal when you dropped by to visit him that you’d go out back and shoot with him, then get your … Continue reading
its about ideas: language of graphic design
by Art Chantry: i found this mag and snagged it immediately. i ASSUMED it was an early warhol magazine cover (done for the infamous “draw binky” ‘Famous Artists Correspondence School” magazine partly owned by norman rockwell, no less!) but, when … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Ben Shahn, david stone martin, ed fotheringham, Logan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mudhoney piece of cake, nathan gluck, nieman marcus, Norman Rockwell, Paul Klee, William Burroughs
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under cover stock options
The premise of the show, Under Cover Boss was in the vein of Reality television, low cost programming that would convey a sense of authenticity and distill a sense of community of interests between those on the bottom of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Larry O'Donnell WMI, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso Demoiselles D'Avignon, reality television, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, Undercover Boss CBS, Waste Management Company, William Burroughs
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the spoken word and its double
Weird Stuff.But brilliant. Steve “Jesse” Bernstein. Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Lou Reed; looking under the rocks of the American fantasy and examining a sensibility of the irrational when fantasy and reality are at each other’s throats. An American product but … Continue reading
but can they turn you on
Jesse Marinoff Reyes: TALKIN’ ‘BOUT THE BEAT G-G-G-G-GENERATION: Here’s a small sampling of how Jack Kerouac and the Beat writers were presented in their time, and from the relatively recent past. Dig it man. More inspiration from the archives… Some … Continue reading
color and the language of second nature
The power of color. Is color more a presence than a sign, a force, ” the most sacred element of all visible things.” Is color primary and not secondary to form? Is color fundamentally involved in the making of culture … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Goethe, John Ruskin, John Verelst, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Proust, Paul Kane, Philip Roth, Philip Whalen, Primo Levi, sidney nolan art, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs
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dallas and american extreme: grassy knoll design
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) the first time i visited dallas, texas, was a miserable trip. i’d been invited down there to give one of my little ‘talks’ (show slides of my work, cuss a lot). i’d not bargained on … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, buffalo george toomer, ed gein garage, george toomer american extremes, Jack Kerouac, JFK assassination, John F. Kennedy, john wayne gacy painting, Lenny Bruce, phil hollenbeck, the grassy knoll, westlake square shopping mall, William Burroughs
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