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fear of hardship: price of precarity

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Dave

Starving artist syndrome. Or superior creation under the wing of economic security. …. One can bring the matter between aesthetics and economics within the scope of a single hypothesis. It is that pecuniary motivation- roughly, the desire for money income- … Continue reading →

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muse and the economy

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Dave

Or is it the economy and the muse? When individuals are fighting tooth and nail for a living, they look on the arts as a thing apart. Has our affluent society today carried over some of this disdain into a … Continue reading →

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when my ship comes in

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Dave

The perceived incompetence of the ship’s captain.The image of the sinking ship always conjures up other traumatizing images of death by sea. Most notably by one of the pivotal paintings of romanticism,  the 1819  “Raft of the Medusa” by Theodore … Continue reading →

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corpse poetics

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Dave

Working with death as an aesthetic. Is it purely the shocking or a continuation of the gothic and the more macabre elements of romanticism, in the tracks of Henry Fuseli passing through Goya’s horrors of war, Kafka hybrid-human creatures and … Continue reading →

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jumping the shark in kabul

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) The infamous afghan flowchart from hell. this is going to be one of those images of an era. this incredibly impossible chart (claimed to be from a powerpoint, but was actually prepared on another system) is … Continue reading →

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