Tag Archives: Andrew Graham Dixon

drinking with the man

from Paul Hamilton of the Bisonics: DRINKING WITH JESUS I’ve been drinking with Jesus In a bar full of New Cross geezers He won the jackpot on the one-armed bandit Scooping the loot he smiled, ‘That’s the way Dad planned … Continue reading

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collapsing the geometric order

The search for emotional impact. Classicism and romanticism are only tenuously compatible. Like Cain and Abel, its a contrapuntal piece of music, that if played often enough, like Glenn Gould with Bach, can create some some odd exposures to the … Continue reading

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the poor don’t need your pity

…But John Galsworthy’s concern with the suffering of others was occasioned more by the pain knowledge of it gave him than by the pain experience of it gave them: It was the sensitive liberal’s position in succinct form.But once awakened … Continue reading

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road weary

It is the triumph of capitalist rationality. Call it Fordism. The dark side, apparent from the beginning, is the dangerous temptation of an inhuman but very rational drive toward profit. Fascism. There is no doubt that the landscape created by … Continue reading

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infernal machines & delicious associations

Another article from graphic designer Art Chantry. This time Art shares his insights on Saul Steinberg of The New Yorker magazine  fame. The introduction  is from an interview dating about fifteen years ago with Art. Chantry:There used to be a … Continue reading

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Vroom Vroom : mechanical symbolism by the mileage

Its the original Fiat 500. The installation piece  by Lorenzo Quinn features an almost 13 foot high child’s hand and forearm. Like a toddler giant Nephilim playing with a toy.The work alludes to the relationship between parents and their children … Continue reading

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In search of the ubiquitous anecdote for the rank and file

To categorize pictures of the Salon type, whether by any subject or criteria, one could belabor each of the many types- the noble peasant, the Oriental, the jolly peasant, melancholy old ladies, religious pictures, the allegories- but in the end … Continue reading

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the undraped: Of anecdotal interest

There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading

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PASSION & ELEGANCE: Uneasy Companions

The work of Jan van Eyck, with its balanced, reserved, and dignified realism. is usually considered the summary expression of Flemish genius. His complete Flemishness, along with his unapproachable technical perfection, may explain why his art was less easily assimilated … Continue reading

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$ AS A READY-MADE : TZANCK You For The CHECKS

Conceptual art will soon be one hundred years old and it is arguably viewed with as much suspicion now as it was in 1917 when Marcel Duchamp first submitted a signed urinal for inclusion in an art show in New … Continue reading

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