Tag Archives: lena horne

the fifties: east side stories

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Dave

We have been through trying times these past several years. The urge to look back on what is perceived as a ahppier, simpler time is naturally very strong. We tend to canonize the fifties as stable and reassuring, a Golden … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alan Lomax, Alger Hiss, Arthur Miller, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Humphrey Bogart, lena horne, Leonard Bernstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, McCarthy with hunts, Olin Downes, Orson Welles, Pete Seeger, Red Channels pamphlet HUAC, Roy Acuff, Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph A. McCarthy | Leave a comment

revolution on the cutting room floor

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | 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 | Leave a comment

sock it to them: laughing last in our discontent

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Art

Laugh-In. canned laughter and forced hip…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the mid to late 1960′s, the psychedelic underground revolution had already started to wane. it was a literal flash-in-the-pan. All of the original pioneers had morphed into varying sorts of … Continue reading →