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frank images
Loneliness and despair. Its part of the human condition. But not all of it. In its significance, and near pervasiveness, Robert Frank has been one of the best to capture, articulating all its nuances through mainly photography, but also film … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Leslie, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg, David Rubinger, Edward Steichen, Franz Kafka, Gaylord Herron, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul schutzer, robert frank, Susan Sontag, Walker Evans
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revolution on the cutting room floor
Definitely a precursor to today’s political re-mix videos. Passionate agit-pop that incarnated all the hopes and dreams that the socialist project promised. Alvarez’s videos are intense projections that sear the conservative canons of capitalist ideology; the whole market system and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Shahn, Dziga Vertov, Fabian Society, Fidel Castro, H.G. Wells, John Heartfield, John Steinbeck, lena horne, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Now! Santiago Alvarez, Santiago Alvarez
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sour grapes
There is a tendency to romanticize the past; to look back to an earlier epoch in America and the elusive “kindler, gentler America” that is referred to in such reverential tones. Truth is, the past was not so idyllic though … Continue reading
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Tagged Henry Fonda, john myles the grapes of wrath, John Steinbeck, Joseph Schumpeter, Lyle Boren, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, shirley temple, Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
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there’s plenty of room at the bottom
From the previous post that brought up Harry Saltzman, one of the originators of developing the social realism genre of film. Of course, Saltzman did not operate in a vacuum, but he had an intuitive sense that connected the north … Continue reading
signs and signifiers: the snapper
He is made out to be an original traveling troubador, but the reality is more varied and complex in the case of Woody Guthrie than being a mere singer of Cantos in the transplanted Spanish heartland of dust bowl America. … Continue reading
spilling the magic beans
Double dip or double down? A double double? The question is whether we are simply procrastinating on realizing that technology is essentially deflationary and we are accumulating a waiting list of unemployment. President Obama’s dinner with Silicon Valley high tech … Continue reading
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Tagged american economic policy, darcus howe, david rosenberg, dean zerbe forbes, Henry Fonda, Izima Kaoru, James Gillray, John Maynard Keynes, John Steinbeck, Joseph Stiglitz, london riots 2011, martin feldstein, Martin Luther King, melanie pullen photography, milton friedman, Paul Krugman, robert reich, technological unemployment, United States Small Business Act
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mural mural on the wall…
Can street art murals be simply too hot to handle for the public to view? Are the public funds and corporate subsidies often used to produce it any more disreputable than the same norms that permit corporations to peddle much … Continue reading
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Tagged adrienne bennett, Diego Rivera, diego rivera murals, Frida Kahlo, graham w.j. beal, Henry James Thaddeus, Jacques Ranciere, jeffrey deitch, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, judy taylor maine mural, Leon Trotsky, mike tipping, paul lepage maine governor, Slavoj Zizek, street artist blu
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FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET: Sail Away to Victimhood
Huckleberry Finn as everyman. Chronic suffering of brain cramps, broken by occasional lapses of sanity. The decision by a publishing house, NewSouth Books, from Alabama, to exchange the nigger word in Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”, , for “slave” , or … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alex Thomas, Allan Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Motion, D.H. Lawrence, Eminen, Francoise Duresse, Graeme Dalling, Howard Jacobson, Huckleberry Finn, James Baldwin, Joe Speare, John Mullan Guardian, John Steinbeck, Kara Walker, Mark Twain, Michael Franti, Nathaniel Turner, Nicholas Lezard, Nicholas Lezard Guardian, Randy Newman, Richard Wright, Samuel Clemens, Shaquille O'Neal, The Finkler Question
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DARK DREAMS: WRITING ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER
The search for myth, for universal patterns is necessarily a search for the meaning of modern life. Or, it can be viewed as an attempt to escape from it. At this point Harlan Ellison’s quest becomes perilous and paradoxical in … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Charles Darwin, Ellen Weil, Eric Shanower, Erik Nelson, Gary K. Wolfe, H.G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, Herman Melville, Jacek Yerka, John Steinbeck, Josh Olson, Josh Wimmer, Lauren Davis, Lewis Wallace, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paul di Flippo, William Blake
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