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Brecht: don’t look back
Somewhat shakily, tottering, revelation and the spiritual in art managed to survive intact after being banged around from the forces of the new objectivity.It is an absurd state of mind Brecht was latching onto to express alienation in a form … Continue reading
sleeping in comfort: gracious living
Such a disconnect between the bright, optimistic and shiny marketing image of Ikea and the reality of slave labor production; all those earnest and evolved Swedes, post-Bergman’s, meticulously laying the framework for a do-it-yourself assembly post modern aesthetic of cheap … Continue reading
weill done: a weill deal
by Art Chantry: one thing i’ve taught myself to do while thrifting is to always ALWAYS dig through old stashes of classical records. i used to skip over classical records when i found them at yard sales and thrift store … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, Bertolt Brecht, Frasconi, Ivan Chermayeff, Joseph Albers, Kurt Weill, lotte lenya, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mario Lanza, Milton Glaser, Neil S. Fujita, push pin studios, Richard M. Powers, Richard Powers, robert brownjohn, Searle, seymour chwast
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blurring the lines
by Art Chantry yesterday a new friend gave me an old victrola – a beautiful cabinet model in a horizontal consul and all the fittings (even the tone arm is brass!) it’s a gorgeous thing ( thank you, sonya!) inside … Continue reading
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Tagged album cover art, album graphics, alex steinweiss, art chantry, federal arts program WPA, Leadbelly, lotte lenya, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meade "lux" lewis, moses asch, Moses Asch Folkways Records, Pete Seeger, ruth gikow, Woody Guthrie
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hunger: pangs of freedom
The hunger for pure immanence. Or when the blending of realism and idealism becomes a kind of performance art, a “shock of the new” to use the Dadaist phrase, a disruptive force that effectuates art through the banal “ready-made” activity … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Baudelaire, David Blaine, Franz Kafka, Gandhi fasting, gilad shalit, Giovanni Succi, Hana Shalbi, Khader Adnan, lotte lenya, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milena Jesenska, Robert Crumb, Shalit deal, Sharman Apt Russell, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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like a rock: not quite white hope
“Men give meaning to their lives by realizing. . . creative values, by achieving tasks,” wrote Viktor Frankl. The will-to-meaning, a push to articulate the vague, foggy but lighted material of sustenance, was more basic and essential to Frankl than … Continue reading
on the road: serenading mickey
Lotte Lenya:The very next day, Joseph Goebbels banned any more performances of Der Silbersee on account of that ballad. A friend who had been arrested got word to Kurt that he must leave Berlin at once – his name was … Continue reading
feeling it in the neck
Lotte Lenya:Anti-Semitism always existed in Germany. I wasn’t aware of it at first – when you’re young, you aren’t so aware. But I wasn’t blind to it, either, especially after Mahagonny. One time, I was walking down the street with … Continue reading
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Tagged anti semitism, Bertolt Brecht, carl a. rossi, Kurt Weill, lotte lenya, Marianne Faithfull
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too long in exile: worn out welcome
Brecht in exile. He wrote movie scripts and tried to sell them but, except for his scenario for Hangmen Also Die, Brecht sold nothing. He seems to have persistently missed the fact that a great many of the ideas he … Continue reading
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Tagged anselm kiefer, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, charles laughton, Charlie Chaplin, clifford odets, Donald Kuspit, elizabeth hauptmann, Fritz Lang, georg baselitz, HUAC hearings, jaroslav hacek, John Fuegi, lotte lenya, Peter Lorre
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ballad of a thin man with stogie
You, the owners of property are the truly brutish ones, runs the line of ironic implication; we slaves have remained human. Caught between what he expected and what he actually felt, the cultivated German spectator found hmself animated by chronic … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Bob Dylan, carl a. rossi, Donald Kuspit, Hannah Arendt, helene weigel, Jonathan Rosenbaum, lotte lenya, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, suze rotolo, The Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky
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