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patchen: painting poems
by Art Chantry: seemingly forgotten and long overlooked is kenneth patchen. this guy is one of those american originals, a guy who hacked out his own path through the wilderness and just kept hacking away his entire life. people either … Continue reading
dancing with phantoms
…ghost dance and cargo cult…In times of stress look for the prophets of an earthly paradise: Handsome Lake of Mohammed, Lenin or the Teacher of Righteousness. America is always ready willing and able for any millennial cult that presents itself… … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Cargo Cults, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Father Groppi, John Cage, Kenneth Knowlton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Malcolm X Black Muslims, Martin Luther, Neil Krug, Noam Chomsky, Peter Zinovieff, Pontiac Indian Chief, Slavoj Zizek, Umberto Eco
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the look of culture falling apart
by Art Chantry: i’m no expert on FLUXUS or the main man behind it (“Mr. FLUXUS”), george maciunas. in fact, FLUXUS is even difficult to describe. maciunas called it ‘aganst art’ or something to that affect. the bottom line is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Al Hansen, Alison Knowles, art chantry, Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Snyder, Film Culture magazine, George Brecht, george macunias, george macunias fluxus, Joe Jones, John Cage, John Giorno, John Lennon, Joseph Beuys, Larry Miller, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Olga Adorno, Robert Watts, Takehisa Kosugi, W.B. Yeats, Yoko Ono
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Accidental art: relationships with the dice
It was a time of accidental art. Where artists let sheer happenstance paint their pictures or a throw of the dice shape their music; a deliberate effort it seemed, to avoid making decisions. An art of escape and procrastination. … … Continue reading
dada chess: logic vs. transcendence
Lenin’s chance meeting with dadaist Tristan Tzara in 1916 was ostensibly arranged to play chess. Was there something in Dada that piqued the revolutionary passions? Or was it a case of a parallax gap; two points between which no connection, … Continue reading
REVOLUTION OF THE SEXY LAMB
” it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Duke Ellington’s 1931 composition in reverse.Were there Subliminal messages in Beatles songs when played backwards? The famous dead-man messages contained within the marketing and the more subliminal experiments … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Beatles, Carl Solomon, Duke Ellington, Ezra Pound, F.Scott Fitgerald, George Harrison, Gertrude Stein, hemingway, Henri Matisse, Howl, J.Brahms, Jerry Saltz, John Cage, John Lennon, Kurt Weill, Matisse, Musique Concrete, Pablo Picasso, Patum Peperium, Paul McCartney, Pierre Schaeffer, The Beatles, Thornton Wilder, Village voice
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