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Tag Archives: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
chanting around furnaces…
… The Holocaust. here we have one lesson we can learn from Auschwitz. The Holocaust taught us what man can be. When man alone is permitted to decide how to live his life, the product may be either a saint … Continue reading
echoes of the beat
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design): TALKIN’ ‘BOUT THE BEAT G-G-G-G-GENERATION: Here’s a small sampling of how Jack Kerouac and the Beat writers were presented in their time, and from the relatively recent past. Dig it man. More … Continue reading
looking smart
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) this is what a smart book looks like. new directions paperbacks were throughout the 1950’s, 60’s & 70’s the quintessential image of intelligence. all you had to do was walk around with one tucked under your … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged alvin lustig, alvin lustig design, Andre Gide, art chantry, dover books, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, gilda kuhlman, Herman Hesse, James Agee, james laughlin, Jean Paul Sartre, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nathaniel West, new directions paperbacks, trade paperback books, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, William Saroyan
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halloween 365: old costumes new cultures
There is a perversion of the sacred in using and framing advertising and cinematic depictions of women, designating them as spaces of cultural remembrance and extending the narrative to create an entire “pop culture” out of the conflicts and tensions … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Anita Sarkeesian, Charles Baudelaire, diane di prima, Feminist frequency, janet jacobs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, maria farland, Michael Moore, Rosa Luxemburg, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin, will lammert
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revolutionary letters
By Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) diane di prima was (along with singer juliet greco), the prototypical stereotype for the classic “beatnik chick.” whenever you think of a beatnik chic, there are two types of women you classically conjure up in your … Continue reading
back to babylon: fires of revenge
Anyone with a smattering of biblical knowledge knows that historical Israel was claimed and conquered under circumstances that could not plausibly be described as peaceful and orderly.Yet, instead of reveling in, and advocating for war and armed struggle,Jewish tradition is … Continue reading
tin tin: the naked hunch
Its a hybrid. An odd juxtaposition of William S. Burroughs and Tintin in X’ed Out, a comic by Charles Burns. … X’d Out is the story of Doug, a young guy with a head injury who has taken to his … Continue reading
3 rd of may: shoot in may and go away
Like all great historical and philosophical themes, analyzing the Third of May is somewhat vulnerable to some superficial and not necessarily valid interpretations. The originality of Goya’s treatment in his depiction of the executioners. Where they might expectedly have be … Continue reading
grim tidings: disasters and masters of war
A preoccupation with mystery, violence and the irrational was always present in Goya’s art. As the years passed, casual observations of the foibles and horrors of the world were transfigured into a vision of life that came to dominate his … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alan Woods, Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, Graeme Mitchell, Kendall L. Walton, Kenneth Clark, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Matthew Brady, Meissonier, Nicolas Poussin, Pablo Picasso, Trevor Malkinson
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