Tag Archives: Bruce Springsteen

faking the real: postures in palestine

A modern aesthetic rebellion against bourgeois existence. Its an ambiguous rhetoric, an in-between, between aesthetic and political radicalism that never commits to either; like the British promising the same dunams of land to jew and arab. As protest, it is … Continue reading

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blink of a pop culture eye

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) back in the mid-sixties, just as the ‘british invasion” of the american pop music charts was peaking and the post war baby-boom overkill of teenage culture was reaching a fever pitch – acid hit. in … Continue reading

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take off your slippers: only the nice die young

and so it is it really possible to effectuate a meaningful change in the organization of society? A fulfillment of the Isiah prophecy of relations between the spirit without the intermediary of material considerations.Can we as infants, at least aspire … Continue reading

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ozzy zine

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) i was packing up my studio (yet another move!) and was going through some more piles of crap and found an old proof sheet from the rocket days. it’s probably from the late 80’s and i … Continue reading

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won’t get fooled again:NOT a sampler but a sampling

It was a lot of money back then, and sampling has evolved to become a lucrative promotional vehicle for advertisers…. ….”I really hate the way the money grubbers constantly peck aroudn the edges at things until they can wiggle their … Continue reading

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THE POETS DOWN HERE DON'T WRITE NOTHING AT ALL

The attitude was ”better a horrible ending than a horror without end”. There had been peace in the world for too long. From Berlin, in the spring of 1914, Colonel House wrote to Woodrow Wilson, ”the whole of Germany is … Continue reading

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