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get rid of it in the interests of the rich
Secular humanism. Atheism. Modernism, Moral relativism. All parts of liberalist ideology? We are all the same and there is no difference. Even a five year old could assert its a bald faced lie and the entire premise of multi-culturism and equality … Continue reading
thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong…
1922…People were dubious about spending twenty-five cents a ticket just to see a poet, but then they tended to be somewhat softened, mollified, by the fact that Lindsay also delivered temperance lectures which appeased the many dry-fanatics at the time. … Continue reading
twisting and shouting: father of singing poetry
A lot of shouting. Vachel Lindsay was certainly no Longfellow, no Whittier. What was the fellow trying to prove anyway? Lindsay could have told them. He thought of himself as an artistic originator whose “New Poetry” would, in short order, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, Edgar Allan Poe, Hazelton Spencer, Joel Spingarn, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pete Seeger, T.R. Hummer, Tuli Kupferberg, Vachel Lindsay, Vachel Lindsay Congo, William Blake, Woody Guthrie
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blurring the lines
by Art Chantry yesterday a new friend gave me an old victrola – a beautiful cabinet model in a horizontal consul and all the fittings (even the tone arm is brass!) it’s a gorgeous thing ( thank you, sonya!) inside … Continue reading
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Tagged album cover art, album graphics, alex steinweiss, art chantry, federal arts program WPA, Leadbelly, lotte lenya, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meade "lux" lewis, moses asch, Moses Asch Folkways Records, Pete Seeger, ruth gikow, Woody Guthrie
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tiny & the coasties
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i have a theory that all the lunatics and radical thinkers who just can’t deal with living in the ‘normal’ american mainstream culture tend to run away from the center of the country. they run … Continue reading
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signs and signifiers: the snapper
He is made out to be an original traveling troubador, but the reality is more varied and complex in the case of Woody Guthrie than being a mere singer of Cantos in the transplanted Spanish heartland of dust bowl America. … Continue reading
what signage are you?
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) as far as i know “signage” isn’t a word. although it’s in use (and may have been recently added to the dictionary – i don’t keep up) it’s basically professional “lingo” that is entering our vocabulary. … Continue reading
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Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, design culture, good design, graphic design, herculaneum, pest control businesses, Pompeii, popular mechanics magazine, saul bass, Woody Guthrie, woody guthrie commercial sign painter
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london : read them the riot act?
Mobs and riots are not exactly new phenomenon. It’s had some water under the bridge, most of it undrinkable, to draw on. When the capital of the Roman empire moved to the East, the mob, at Byzantium rioted with unparalleled … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayn Rand, boris johnson london mayor, Charlie Chaplin, charlie chaplin the kid, chico marx, dacher keltner, Frank Capra, frank capra you can't take it with you, Groucho Marx, harpo marx, Jonathan McIntosh, london riots 2011, mark duggan london riots 2011, Political Remix Videos PRV, Rev. Tim Jones, Reverend Tim Jones, The Gordon Riots 1780, watts riot 1965, Woody Guthrie
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