Tag Archives: Max Ernst

merely fresh kill

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com ) every decade has it’s little graphic design cliches. these are ubiquitous gimmicks and snappy ideas that seem to catch on like a fad and then get exhausted, yet persist long after it was ever clever. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged art chantry, chuck anderson, crumby textbooks, david carson, david carson raygun magazine, finishing schools, Francis Picabia, graphic design, Max Ernst, Shepard Fairey, simon reynolds | Leave a comment

escape to the clumsy arrangements

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Dave

The aesthetization of political understanding. After all, kitsch is the dominant culture, almost the only culture. Its effects are characterized by immediacy, an ingratiating nature,a form devoid of ambiguity and a cuteness marked by superficiality. Sometimes however, and somewhat disconcertingly, … Continue reading →

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absurdities: the masculine warrior figure

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dave

Vanity is usually pretty revolting. An auto-glorification. narcissism. But as a minor saving grace, it can aspire to a certain honesty. But, for some reason, the relationship between vanity and worshiping money remains an enduring legacy, as if the power … Continue reading →

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pledging alleigance to the hollow man

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Dave

It was to address the decline of individuality. In the new technological world, the individual had meaning and value only to the extent it was in the service of this new instrumentality. Artistically, though artists generally targeted their work into … Continue reading →

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people in glass cases

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Dave

Call it an archiving of the human inventory of the ghetto. An accounting before sealing the doors shut and flipping the switch. August Sander. It was the new scientific method of photography. The subject as an anatomical study of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan trachtenberg, Albrecht Durer, August Sander, Charles Darwin, Gerhard Richter, Helen Levitt photography, John Berger, kurt tucholsky, Max Ernst, Sigmund Freud, Stendhal, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

turning the page

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Dave

Imagine, the history of the nation hinged on an art book. One of the most dangerous anti-apartheid activists was arrested while reading an art book? What book? Until we find out, we can only speculate, that either it was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alexei remizov, arthur goldreich, Catherine Deneuve, denis goldberg, ernst kirschner, helmut newton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Max Horkheimer, Nelson Mandela, slim aaron book, stephen dupont, Truman Capote, Walter Benjamin | 1 Comment

apocalypse: yearning for nihilion

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Dave

the Apocalypse has always held a particular fascination in the American imagination from religious fundamentalism to secular fear-mongers of nuclear holocaust, new age warnings of environmental apocalypse and economic armageddon because of greedy bankers and those sneaky poor who cheat … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Filippo Marinetti, George Grosz, harold camping, Italian Futurists, livin' for the apocalypse, lord byron darkness, Max Ernst, Max Horkheimer, michael shermer, Ronald Reagan, survival doctor, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

cabaret voltaire: an arcade project

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Dave

Dada as just another shop, another boutique in the arcade? Dada put into question the myths surrounding originality, and the relationship of the artist to the category of “genius”. Dada suggested instead, or implied that everyone could be an artist, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Andy Warhol, cubism and dada, Donald Kuspit, emily hennings, Ernst Bloch, Francis Picabia, futurism and dada, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Hans Richter, Hugo Ball, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, miles w. mathis, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck, situationism, Tristan Tzara, Voltaire, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin dada | Leave a comment

Miro and the Tears of A clown: Harlequin Carnival

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Dave

“Painting or poetry is made as we make love,” said Joan Miro. His personages are hot- blooded, but they have a sense of decency: they do not like to be caught in the act. And so, even while we have … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Arthur Rimbaud, Henry Miller, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Nick Burton, Paul Klee, Picasso, Rene Magritte, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, William H. Robinson | Leave a comment

the dream of the idea: fantasy behind the illusion

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Art

It was a time when the world was going terribly wrong. A look at the art of A.M. Cassandre…. by Art Chantry( art@artchantry.com) : This is the cover of Harper’s Bazaar, September 15th, 1939. the cover is by A.M. Cassandre. … Continue reading →