Tag Archives: Maxfield Parrish

omar the tent faker

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Dave

How to escape the classic and enduring, reinforced Orientalist trappings, the colonialist “other” that keeps resurfacing in reinforced, ingenious and more invigorated fashion. Is this part of the running of the gauntlet, the typical immigrant cycle as invoked by Canadian … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged craig thompson habibi, Francis Galton, Harold Bloom, henry goddard psychologist, john frederick lewis, julius grey lawyer, Maxfield Parrish, Rick Salutin, Sam Huntington, stieg larsson, Thomas Rowlandson, Thorstein Veblen, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek | Leave a comment

the barn: tangles and angles of innocence

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Dave

Advertising billboards on the side of barns are really part of Americana, and have been so since the end of the eighteenth-century. Its easy to dismiss this kind of advertising as having minimal cultural value or significance, but closer looks … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged barn murals, douglas tyler, harley e. warrick, harley warrick, Leonardo Da Vinci, Maxfield Parrish, william g. simmonds, william simmonds | Leave a comment

MEMES IN OUR GENES

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Dave

In the digital age its becoming of becoming of greater importance to understand the idea of “meme” — a unit of cultural information. The concept has been neatly expressed in Henry Jenkins’s white paper, If It Doesn’t Spread, It’s Dead. … Continue reading →