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bargain bin language: pounded and grown
By Art Chantry: the other day, i wrote some stuff about an old ad for a concert by the doors. i started out talking about the graphic design style and the history represented by the way the ad was created. … Continue reading
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Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, graphic design, graphic design language, Jim Morrison The Doors, lo reed, lou dorfsman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, pickwick records, The Doors, The Estate of Jim Morrison, the velvet underground, william golden
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countdown: subterranean homesick text
going underground to a novel format: the magazine as paperback… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com ): These two little paperback books are actually NOT paperback books at all! they look like paperbacks, are printed like paperbacks, published by paperback publishers and even … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, countdown a subterranean magazine, countdown magazine, diane de prima, ed sanders, Eldridge Cleaver, gary Snyder, Jerry Rubin, Jim Morrison The Doors, jon landau, richard meltzer, robert christgau, Robert Crumb, Timothy Leary, US a paperback magazine
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king of the wood: return to the grove at nemi
In James Frazer’s The Golden Bough, one is caught up in the drama of a dark and sleeping earth warmed into renewed life by the reviving sun, which also seems in the end to symbolize, for author and reader of … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Jung, Elvis Presley, James Frazer, james george frazer, Jim Morrison The Doors, John Lennon, Joseph Campbell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, mary renault, matt rees, Michael jackson, Rudolf Steiner
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will the circle be unbroken: the divine is immanent
James Frazer retold ancient myths in The Golden Bough in such a way that he re-intepreted them, renewed them and thus ended up creating a new version of the myth. A homogenized version that has been packaged and marketed ever … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Elvis Presley, Friedrich Nietzsche, Homer The Odyssey, James Frazer, james george frazer, jane ellen harrison, Jim Morrison The Doors, Joseph Campbell, Marilyn Monroe, mary renault, steve sailer, The Doors
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A dionysian frenzy: a downer of a deity?
Only if you lose yourself can you find yourself? This is the message of the eternal orgy of spring. Is Dionysus really the god of rock n’ roll? The god, superhuman power, force of nature,call him what you like, known … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Ayn Rand, chuck berry, Euripides, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Homer, Homer The Odyssey, Jim Morrison The Doors, Keith Richards, lester bangs, Mick Jagger, robert christgau, robert palmer, ruth benedict, Stravinsky, Titian
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