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Tag Archives: Yoko Ono
ono no no songs
Mourning has broken. Feed the hungry ghosts. The appetite is whetted but never sated. Feed the little beast. Appease. Or it will eat you whole and spit you out. Add this to the idea of The Lost Object. the inability … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Klein Beatles Manager, Bill Wyman, David Frost, David Steen photography, Derek Taylor Apple Records, John Lennon, John Lennon Steel and Glass, nancy shevell, Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney interview David Frost, Ringo Starr, Sigmund Freud, Yoko Ono
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let it be apple
By Art Chantry: this is the second most beautiful record label ever designed (the first being ‘SUN records’, ‘natch). so, who designed it? The hipster guess is Yoko Ono, but it wasn’t her. The idea came from Paul McCartney, Sir … Continue reading
trash-culture-ville
by Art Chantry: most of us out there in trashcultureville are very familiar with the legend of the “cheap thrills” record cover. how the band asked robert crumb (their buddy) to draw the cover art. the record company used what … Continue reading
the look of culture falling apart
by Art Chantry: i’m no expert on FLUXUS or the main man behind it (“Mr. FLUXUS”), george maciunas. in fact, FLUXUS is even difficult to describe. maciunas called it ‘aganst art’ or something to that affect. the bottom line is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Al Hansen, Alison Knowles, art chantry, Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Snyder, Film Culture magazine, George Brecht, george macunias, george macunias fluxus, Joe Jones, John Cage, John Giorno, John Lennon, Joseph Beuys, Larry Miller, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Olga Adorno, Robert Watts, Takehisa Kosugi, W.B. Yeats, Yoko Ono
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tea and the polite amusements
To dip or to pour. that is the question…. The Tea Party felt it was better to pour tea into the waters around the Boston wharf. Maybe if they had poured water into the barrels of tea history would have … Continue reading
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Tagged aleksei naumov, Christopher Hitchens, henry saville, John Lennon, john lennon tea, jonas hanway, Lewis Carroll, mary cassatt, richard collins artist, William Makepiece Thackeray, Yoko Ono
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imagine if you can: yes!
John Lennon’s message was fairly straightforward: don’t swallow wholesale what you’ve been told. Affirm your independence or it will be taken from you. Assert your individuality. Don’t let yourself be imprisoned by rules and regulations devised by others. All easier … Continue reading
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Tagged Gary Tillery, John Lennon, knotted gun statue, knotted gun strategy, Marshall Crenshaw, non-violence project foundation, Paul McCartney, Rene Descartes, Ringo Starr, Slavoj Zizek, steve forbert, Tennessee Williams, The Beatles, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono
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force feeding a permeable society
The artist’s treatment of the individual does in many respects, though not definitively, reflect a culture’s attitude towards itself. There is a grey zone between kitsch and perversity, as if they gravitate to one another creating a rather violent aesthetic. … Continue reading
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Tagged Body Worlds and the Cycle of Life Exhibition, broch, Carolee Schneemann, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Hans Bellmer, Jerry Saltz, Kiki Smith, mario wasserman, Marquis de Sade, otto kernberg, Robert Mapplethorpe, terence koh, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono
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the garrison
“Must be something in the water.” (Robbie Robertson ) Very potent water indeed. It was the politics of the mystic. One taken in with the idea of a New Jerusalem. This concept of the “City on a Hill” which originally … Continue reading
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Tagged audrey mclaughlin, Book of Revelation, daniel francis author, ed broadbent, fred herzog photography, George Woodcock, John Lennon, Margaret Atwood, new jerusalem, Northrop Frye, Robbie Robertson, Ronald Reagan, simon de jong, Stephen Harper, tommy douglas, william notman, Yoko Ono
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