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Tag Archives: Ezra Pound
1-800-just-fear
Hard to believe. The photo is a meme. However, if law enforcement agencies have budgets, they have to spend them .Its the use it or lose it syndrome and hitting the fear button, raising levels of anxiety is tailor made … Continue reading
canto for a very old world order
Ezra Pound and Mussolini.The kind of hero worship that seems absurdly ridiculous today. Search for the father figure? Demented, this love for pathological killers recast as humanist heroes and purveyors of order and nobility in a world moving too fast … Continue reading
spearheading
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes (Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Spearhead New Directions, 1947 Design: Alvin Lustig Spearhead was an anthology of the best of the New Directions annuals published between 1936-46 and from other sources. It was meant to … Continue reading
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
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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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modernist garden: flowers of evil
In retracing the steps of Charles Baudelaire’s Paris, Walter Benjamin also arrived at a similar conclusion with respect to modernism’s influence on society. The flaneur, the urban dweller; this persona lead Benjamin to remark that the prostitute is the only … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony taafe, Audrey Hepburn, Brooke Shields, Camille Claudel, Charles Baudelaire, dakota fine, e.j. bellocq, Ezra Pound, frank budgen, Gertrude Stein, gwen john, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, jeff jetton, keith carradine, Lady Gaga, larry flynt, Louis Malle, Noam Chomsky, Pablo Picasso, Walter Benjamin, Wyndham Lewis
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brillo pad to kraft dinner to goldfish: integral equations
Maybe it was supposed to be a fake. This whole PR campaign that faked an incident where Banksy transformed the Jesus the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro into Bin Laden was a photo-shop effort. But, though inauthentic and phony, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alain sechas, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, arthur danto, Banksy, Carter B. Horseley, Clement Greenberg, don dedillo, Donald Kuspit, Ezra Pound, gil vicente, Guy Debord, Hilton Kramer, integral art, keith martin-smith, Marcel Duchamp, marco evaristti, Maurizio Cattelan, piotr uklanski, thomas pynchon, Walter Benjamin
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ITS A MAN’S WORLD:Fighting Over Creature Features
Elmer Wheeler was the greatest salesman of his time. He took a wise crack: “Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle” and turned it into an imposing, profit-making, money-sucking business philosophy. Wheeler emphasised that people are not interested in “the steak”, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Caillou, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Brett McKay, Bruce Jay Friedman, Charles Darwin, Elmer Wheeler, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H.G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, Hugh Hirtle, Josh Alan Friedman, Mario Puzo, Martin Goodman, Mickey Spillane, Mrio Puzo, Sherwood Anderson, Stuart Friedman, Will Hulsey
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THE PATTER ON YOUR OLD TIN HAT
The Bugle sings: “Go to sleep! Go to sleep! Slumber well where the shells screamed and fell. Let your rifles rest on the muddy floor, You will not need them any more. Danger’s past; Now at last, Go to sleep.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Seeger, Archibald MacLeish, Billy Bishop, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Irving Berlin, Jack Reed, John Dos Passos, Joyce Kilmer, Laurence Stallings, Michael Gold, Thomas Boyd, William Faulkner
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LAUGHTER OUT OF DEAD BELLIES
Even before America had entered World War One, death had become a romantic subject for the new generation of American writers. The notion spread that it was the inevitable fate of men in the trenches, and writers then in college … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Seeger, Andre Breton, Arthur Stringer, Erich Maria Rilke, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fiona Maddocks, Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka The Penal Colony, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, John Drinkwater, Lew Ayres, Lewis Milestone, Louis Wolheim, Michael Lowy, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rupert Brooke, Walter Benjamin
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