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dada and definition : what is becomes

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) back in 1939, after several years of quiet inactivity (if you think of chess as inactivity), the great godhead conceptualist dadaist/anti-artist marcel duchamp, introduced his awesome “rotorelief” series. the art world was (like always) terribly confused, … Continue reading

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future crock

Italian futurism….. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is something I clipped somewhere a while back. No recollection of where it was, or when it was. I don’t know who did this and I don’t know when it was created, or whether … Continue reading

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PATRIOTIC ROMANCE & WAR DANCE: The Illusion It Was All Worthwhile

There’s an epidemic Stirring passions in young hearts Even the old campaigners Have got it really bad Well we ain’t seen nothing like it Since coronation day But when the street parties sound I’m going underground To keep the rabid … Continue reading

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SKEPTICALLY UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE CERTAINTY OF DOUBT

Certain quotations from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ”On Certainty”  seem to imply that we can doubt everything: each statement that might be true still has some aspects that might make it possible to doubt it. Certainly, the issue of Goldman-Sachs and our … Continue reading

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GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS

Propaganda and World War One. Poster art from the Great War’s aftermath are visual documents that recall great propaganda and more importantly, the desperate years that produced it. They are compelling; and also a vivid form of pictorial shorthand for … Continue reading

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MACHIAVELLI CURTAIN CALL

”My take on this is that the system has not broken down. It was built broken. It was designed that way. It’s functioning according to the original plan. Democracy was never the intention. Thwarting democracy was. The U.S. founding fathers … Continue reading

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