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no escape
The impossibility of dropping out? …. Our protest culture, whatever the historical precedents, be it baby boomers of Woodstock or back to the desert hermits and mystics of yore; whatever the worthiness of its aims, noble and earnest the approach … Continue reading
poetic hoax: because mal in french means bad
(see link at end)…In a single rollicking afternoon McAuley and Stewart cooked up the collected works of Ernest Lalor Malley. Imitating the modern poets they most despised (‘not Max Harris in particular, but the whole literary fashion as we knew … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd, Catherine Caris, Corporal Harold Stewart, David Brooks author, Dylan Thomas, Ern Malley poetry, Henry Treece, John De Burgh Perceval, John Perceval art Australia, Joy Hester Angry Penguins, Lieutenant James McAuley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Harris Angry Penguins, Max Harris Mary Martin bookshops, Reed, sidney nolan, Sidney Nolan paintings, sunday reed
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water of life
…Setting aside all the trivia about whisky, one can easily summarize the characteristics of this undeniably important fluid… Definition: A spirit distilled from malted barley or other grain- Oxford dictionary. Note that it is not described as “good to drink” … Continue reading
killing time club: edumacation
by Art Chantry: this is an advert for one of those horrible “TIME, INC.” book clubs from the 1960’s. i don’t know how long it was around (the oldest examples i have are from the mid 1960’s). it was one … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alan E. Cober, Aldous Huxley, alexy brodovitch, American illustration 1960's, antonio frasconi, art chantry, Dylan Thomas, Jacob Landau, James McMullen, James Thurber, Joseph Low, leo & diane dillon, Louis di Valentin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel West, Paul Hogarth, ronald searle, seymour chwast, Thomas Jefferson, Thrift Store Collectibles, Time Inc. book clubs, Time-Life magazine, tomi ungerer, TRP books
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looking smart
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) this is what a smart book looks like. new directions paperbacks were throughout the 1950’s, 60’s & 70’s the quintessential image of intelligence. all you had to do was walk around with one tucked under your … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged alvin lustig, alvin lustig design, Andre Gide, art chantry, dover books, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, gilda kuhlman, Herman Hesse, James Agee, james laughlin, Jean Paul Sartre, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nathaniel West, new directions paperbacks, trade paperback books, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, William Saroyan
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SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT
”Movement is unpremeditated being; it is the uncritical expression of life. As we begin to meditate we begin to stop living. . . First comes life; and if we meditate prematurely, if we lend to physical things a critical self-consciousness, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alexander Calder, Allen Ginsberg, Claes Oldenberg, Dennis Oppenheim, Donald judd, Dylan Thomas, Ethan Coen, Georgia O'keefe, Ingar Dragset, Jackson Pollock, Jean Tinguely, Joel and Ethan, Joel Coen, John Chamberlain, John Constable, Laura Riding, Len Lye, Max Ernst, Michael Elmgreen, miro, No Country for old men film, Picasso, public art, Robert Graves, roger horrocks, W.H. Auden, Wind Wand
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Dylan & Rimbaud: Whose Not There?
Should Bob Dylan be considered a songwriter or a poet? Dylan was asked that very question at a press conference in 1965, when he famously said, “I think of myself more as a song-and-dance man.” It is indisputable, though, that … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Ben Whishlaw, Bob Dylan, Clive James, Dylan Thomas, Franz Kafka, Guy Debord, H.G. Wells, I'm Not there, Kevin Urban, Larry Gross, Mark Jenkins, Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud, The Time Machine, Woody Guthrie
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