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conforming fifties:riffing on fear
Must we be nostalgic about the fifties? … …Meanwhile, other millions of Americans, perhaps subconsciusly paralyzed by fear, reacted to the threat of nuclear attack by pretending that it simply didn’t exist. And, as a side effect of this attitude, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's American culture, 1950's bomb shelters, 1950's conformity, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nat King Cole, Paul McCartney Run Devil Run, Telephone stuffing fad 1950's, The 1950's American culture, Volkswagen stuffing 1950's
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nostalgic about the fifties
Must we be nostalgic about the fifties? Color the decade green, the color of chlorophyll; sprinkle with freckles, like Howdy Doody; add a smear of red lipstick, and put it in a sack. What do you get? An Edsel. Thinking … Continue reading
KUSTOM KuvveR: the altered cover
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): SINCE i’ve talking about old record covers (yet again! i swear these things will someday be sold in art galleries as fine art prints), there is another weird little category of collecting i tripped across. … Continue reading
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Tagged altered covers LP, andy wood, art chantry, bob dylan bootlegs, bob dylan the basement tapes, bob dylan the great white wonder, dave crider estrus records, Kustom Kover LP, mother love bone, Nat King Cole, record packaging, The Dictators, The Dictators Go Girl Crazy
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Mystery of the Masons: part I
A guest blog from Tai Carmen at Parallax.Parallax: Exploring the architecture of human perception. There is an aesthetics of Masonry that in light of the Royal wedding of April 29, became more visually represented… Tai Carmen: Though Masonry is identical … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged albert pike, Aleister Crowley, Ark of the Covenant, Benjamin Franklin, Duke Ellington, eye of horus, freemasonry, helen nicholson, hiram abiff, Isaac Newton, John Wayne, King Solomon, Mark Twain, Nat King Cole, Oscar Wilde, roman emperor constantine, sacred geometry, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, Voltaire, Winston Churchill, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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