Tag Archives: James Dean

promo: caress their chest with a tea towel

Today is apparently “discreetly give the finger to people all day today” Not surprisingly, it follows yesterday which was “be gay for a day” which was marked by a lot of frottage and flirting overtures, but the clientele did behave … Continue reading

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the 1950′s : early stirrings of disaffection

…and a list of some of the leading Hollywood movie stars of the fifties is enough to strike a chill into the heart of cineastes everywhere-Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rory Calhoun, Rock Hudson, Debra Paget, Robert … Continue reading

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the fifties: getting funky with disaffection

Must we be nostalgic about the 1950′s? Hardly the Golden Age many make it out to be. If we turn over the shiny stone, there were more than a few creepy-crawlers underneath… James Dean created a character who reflected the … Continue reading

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if our memory serves us well

The social delinquent and adolescent rebel as artistic archetype. As long as one keeps rebelling, raging, one guarantees they can never change and grow old. Grow into maturity. It became one of the pathologies of the romantic movement, to die … Continue reading

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the vampires… desires of the dark promise

the vampires… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Vampire chicks! we love ‘em to death! the vampire chick is one of those ubiquitous and constantly present iconographic images in our culture. there’s even an enormous amount of pornography exclusively dedicated to vampire … Continue reading

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happy days: manufacture of innocence

Halfway through the 1950′s , in the summer of 1955, Life ran an article entitled Nobody is Mad With Nobody.” In the text, in which, next to  photographs of things like two car suburban garages marked “his” and “hers”, the … Continue reading

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spooked: after midnight

getting spooky. And it all began with Helena Blavatsky and her spiritualist movement, then assumed a distinct identity within popular American culture… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): What do the Cramps, Gwar, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Blackstone the Magician, David Copperfield, penn … Continue reading

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CELEBRITY as COMMODITY FETISH: Recycle Those Tropes and Posers

For better or worse….Celebrities are not diversions for our society anymore; they are the basis of our social and economic lives.The worship of celebrity, for many is a religion fabricated and patented piecemeal out of the hollowness of some foregone … Continue reading

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POETRY OF REVOLT: Beware of Dionysians Wearing Masks

Dionysus. . . is the genuine mask god. ──Walter F. Otto In the case of Dionysus, the mask disguises him as much as it proclaims his identity. --Jean-Pierre Vernant The mask is a symbol both of the ‘pure presence’ of … Continue reading

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DEAD MEN TALKING: IN MOURNING FOR SQUARESVILLE

“June 22 saw the publication of the second installment of Life and Loves Among the Beatniks. Allen Brown quotes freely from Norman Podhoretz and Herbert Gold. He describes the day of a typical beatnik as waking late in the morning … Continue reading

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