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Tag Archives: Edgar Allen Poe
alien seeding
by Art Chantry: my old friend, wilum pugmire, has recently emerged on facebook as an interesting presence. long an h.p. lovecraft admirer and weird fiction writer in the lovecraft tradition, he has begun a great deal of readings online and … Continue reading
an ethereal poe
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) here is another really great collection of poe illustrated by one of the giants of 20th century illustration. borzoi books was a subdivision of alfred a. knopf publishing and specialized in fine editions of great … Continue reading
freaks : gabba gabba mantra
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) tod browning’s bizarre masterpiece, “freaks”, also seems to introduce an interesting tweak in movie title typography. i imagine there are earlier examples, but this is the earliest i’ve found of a sort of ‘interactive’ typographic … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged art chantry, bela lugosi, Edgar Allen Poe, joey ramone, john carpenter director, john carpenter the thing, kurt rusell the thing, kurt russell, lon chaney, robert massin, robert massin "condom" type, The Ramones, the ramones gabba gabba, Tod Browning, Tod Browning Freaks 1932
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white men and black cats: fraternal disorder
the cult of the black cat…… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is a small shopping bag (the sort of thing to put a few nails in) from Copeland Lumber – a local northwest hardware/lumber store. I believe they’re still in business, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged american graphic design history, art chantry, black cat occult, black cat symbolism, c.h. pants rowland, concatonated order of the hoo- hoo, copeland lumber, Edgar Allen Poe, Henri Matisse, IWW, Kate Middleton, president harding, Prince William, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, The Wobblies
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soliloquy: photos of american monologues
Small vignettes that serve as a form of Americana that bend the universal into the national.Taking an extravagant oral style of the past and coaxing it into sensitive human revelation. Whether one considers them Mark Twain or an even older … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alec soth, alexander Farkas, Alexis de Tocqueville, Damien Hirst, Edgar Allen Poe, ellis washington, emily dickinson, Greil Marcus, Henry James, Luc Sante, Mark Twain, michael a. ledeen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, neal riemer, Walt Whitman
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IN THE CLUTCHES OF THE NETHER REACHES
Fate sits on these dark battlements, and frowns, And, as the portals open to receive me, Her voice, in sullen echoes through the courts, Tells of a nameless deed. ( Anne Radcliffe ) Horace Walpole set a pattern with his … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Antonin Artaud, Coleridge, Edgar Allen Poe, Giambattista Piranesi, Gothic literature, Horace Walpole, John Mallard William Turner, John Pettie, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Lord Byron, Marquis de Sade, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Matthew gregory Lewis The Monk, Nicolai Abraham Abilgaard, Salvator Rosa, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Sir Walter Scott, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek
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MOLLUSKS & MIGHTY APHRODITE
To the deceptively simple lessons of nature, humankind has turned repeatedly for renewal, self discovery, and a glimpse of their place in the great nature of things. Few creations of the natural world have served so well and widely in … Continue reading
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